#Its angsty and sweet

[fabiiey]

I Can't Go On Without You

Summary: Max calls up Mike at three am, without any questions asked, Mike goes to her.

Tags: Max Mayfield & Mike Wheeler, Minor Character Death

Its on Ao3 too

“Mike?”

“Max? It’s three in the morning?”

“I know – its… its my mom. Can you come to the hospital please?”

“I’ll be there.”

He doesn’t care to be silent, shoving his shoes on and grabbing a sweater. He doesn’t think of Holly still awake or the fact that his mom had for sure heard him slamming things around as he swipes his keys off the kitchen counter. His walkie is in one hand, the open channel silent as he starts up the car and peels out his driveway loudly, waking up the sleeping neighborhood.

He looked at the time, the numbers 3:12 flashing at him. He easily drives down the empty streets, definitely breaking a few speeding laws as he approaches Hawkins General. He sees Max sitting outside, smoke curling around her in wispy clouds. He gets out, barely remembering to lock his car as he jogs towards her. She looks horrible. Her face is splotchy, bright red against her pale skin and her freckles seemed almost non-existent. She drops the cigarette, putting it out under her shoe before stepping forward and crashing into Mike’s chest.

He instinctively wraps his arms around her, one hand around her waist and the other pressing her head to his neck. He doesn’t know what’s wrong, he doesn't know why she’s at the hospital at three in the morning, but he’s here, holding her tightly as if he could put back all her broken pieces back together. She smells of smoke and cheap rose perfume and her hair feels tangled, the strands being held up by a dingy hair tie. She’s still in her Ralph’s Records uniform: A black bowling shirt with the store name embroidered on the right side of the shirt and her blue ripped jeans.

She pulls away first, her breath still ragged and quick. Her face is still red, and her eyes are bloodshot as she leads him inside, walking past the nurses mulling around the nursing station. He catches their worried looks as Max tightens her grip on his hand, tugging him into the elevator. She stands across from him, arms crossed and her face dejected. Its different from that night in ’85, when they had been standing outside Billy’s hospital room waiting for the doctors to confirm if he was alive or not.

He wasn’t, the Mindflayer destroyed his chest cavity, taking his lungs, heart, and any organs that had gotten in the way.

That was the last time Mike had seen Neil Hargrove, tear marks streaking down his face and Max had muttered something about Neil only crying because he hoped it was him that ended his son, not some measly mall fire. Still, Mike only felt the surface level of empathy for the horrible man with a rotten son.

Almost three years later, Mike feels like he’s still stuck in that moment, the only difference was that the Party wasn’t here. The Byers were still in California, far away from Hawkins as they can get without leaving the country. Dustin wasn’t even in Hawkins either, he was in Utah, spending his winter break with Suzie and Lucas was in Chicago with his parents, looking at some of the schools that had scouted him for the various sports he played.

“My mom got hit.” Max finally says, “A drunk driver drove her into a tree. The driver died on the way to the hospital and my mom, they said she won’t make it.” He pulls her close, hands almost shaking as the elevator finally opens. She pulls away, her shoulders squaring, and she steps out into the flurry of doctors running the floor. She waits and Mike waits with her, waits for the inevitable news that Susan Mayfield died on a cold December night in 1987 because someone decided to drive drunk.

Mike goes in at six thirty to make a promise, hoping to ease Susan Mayfield’s mind.

For the first time in years, Mike prays to a god he’s not sure exist and prays for an easy passing.

Max goes in at six-forty-seven to say goodbye and at seven am on December 19th, 1987, Susan Mayfield succumbs to her injuries.

At seven am, on that snowing morning, Max Mayfield is the last of her family.

At seven am, on that cloudy, cold morning, Max Mayfield becomes an orphan at the age of seventeen.

They leave the hospital almost at midday, Max has to fill out paperwork and she wants to sleep forever once they’re done.

Mike takes them home, sits in the car for a complete thirty minutes with her, takeout slowly cooling at her feet before she sighs heavily and grabs the bags. She heads to his room, whispering a ‘good afternoon’ to Mrs. Wheeler before disappearing up the stairs. Mike realizes suddenly how exhausted he is as his mom meets him in the hall, a worried look on her face. Her hair is brown again, just how it had been before everything went to shit, before his best friend went missing and they were fighting interdimensional monsters every week for the next four years.

He seeks her comfort just like he did when they pulled Will’s fake body out of the water and when the Byers left Hawkins, taking two pieces of him with them.

( He doesn’t mention the day him and El broke up over the phone four months after she moved away and he cried into her lap at fifteen years old)

“Susan is dead.” He whispers, “Can she stay here?”

And Karen Wheeler is a mother, she raised three good, smart kids. She feed the three boys that never left Mike’s side. She let them have free reign of the basement and let them stay as long as their parents let them. With a gentle nod of her head and a kiss to the side of his head along with a whispered promise that she’s always welcomed, does she let him go.

Mike finds Max in one of his shirts. It’s the Hellfire one, he had gotten an extra, paying Eddie an additional twenty dollars he won in a bet with Nancy for it. It was big, hanging off one of her shoulders exposing her collarbone. She was eating her fries, eyes distant as Mike entered his room quietly, the door clicking shut behind him. She doesn’t look at him as he takes his own food and eats it in silence next to her.

When they’re done, Mike closes the curtains as Max gets comfortable on the bed, claiming the side by the wall. The room is engulfed in darkness as Mike crosses his room, blindly gathering their trash and going to throw it away. He comes back a few minutes later, a cup of water in hand. He places it on his bedstand as he slips under the covers with Max. She easily fits herself into his side, her cold hands (they’re always cold and it makes him want to hold her closer, to warm her hands up in between his own) fisting his shirt.

It’s easy, familiar in a way they can’t explain. They’re two parts of a song, completing each other in a way no one but maybe Steve and Robin can relate to. He slides an arm around her waist, pulling her close and tugging the blankets over them. Her chest rattles against his side and its easy to press his lips to the top of her head.

When they wake up, he’ll sit her in between his legs and wrangle her hair out of her knotted ponytail and make her hair pretty with simple plaits he begged Nancy to teach him.

When they wake up, he’ll hold her as she cries.

When they wake up, he’ll promise to never leave her, that wherever she goes, he’ll follow and she’ll give him a watery laugh and ask if he’s planning to replace Lucas, because after everything, the two are still together.

But for now, the two sleep, embraced in the warmth they share. Mike’s humming lulls her to sleep as his hand gently rubs circles over the shirt she had made fun of him for wearing.

For now, on this wretched winter day, Max sleeps knowing that when she wakes up, Mike Wheeler will be there, holding her together as her world continues to shift and change.

#mike wheeler #max mayfield #they deserved so much #MIKE LOVES HIS FRIENDS #Mike and Max are each others Steve and Robin #Max truly loves Mike #Its angsty and sweet #stranger things #post season three #not exactly canon compliant #the other one sort of it

[scream-mans-friend]

erasermic is so versatile. depending on how you interpret their relationship, erasermic can be fluffy, it can overcome all hurdles, it can be a new thing thats just bloomed, high school sweethearts, tripping over themselves pining, married with kids. it can also be two estranged friends finding each other again, it can be a codependent relationship born from tragedy, it can be seemingly unrequited, it can be something they both want but know they can never bridge, it can be bitter, it can be haunted, it can tear itself apart, and it can be filled with a loathing for the fact that they care for the others difficult ass. and most importantly they can be besties. and i think thats beautiful.

#you gotta read this one like its a stream of consciousness bc it is #i do really like erasermic. right now i like the angsty type where the relationship is haunted by oboros ghost for example #but next week i may just want to read about them getting together after a long time of pining. or baking cookies or smth sweet #anyways #depression duo

[lokiiied]

i love aragorn and gandalf’s dynamic. like. you can tell aragorn just absolutely adores and admires this man as an older queer figure and gandalf values his input and takes his concerns to heart and always puts him in charge with full faith he will succeed and keep everyone safe

#its such a sweet queer elder figure and his angsty adopted bisexual son who he sees pining over the twink elf prince #gandalf #aragorn #lotr #legolas #the fellowship

[connorconsumestrousers]

coworker au by m_pils_ on insta !!!

another comic bc my brain is exploding rn /pos

#i really love this au tho its so sweet #but also funne and can be v angsty #in which i made this #bc i like this scenario #okay so this scenario is Stanley doesn't approve of getting drunk or using cigarettes when stressed #he introduces MUSIC !! #bc music is mu destresser and im projecting #fanart #gay #the stanley parable #the narrator #tspud #comicart #mini comic #tspud narrator #the stanley parable fanart #stanley parable #tspud stanley #au fanart #remember this au is by m_pils_ on insta and twt !!! all credit of the au and character designs go directly to them !!

[starchasersunseeker]

Us @beautyoftheships planing angst and constantly saying "poor ___" as if it's not us deciding to add things that will make it more angsty ahahahah

Especially to Jamie... he is really going through it in our convos 😭💔

Fic: Sweet Like Cinnamon

The fic is set in omegaverse and it is about the polycule James / Regulus / Barty / Evan

With James being an omega and the other three are alphas

#fic: sweet like cinnamon #sweet like cinnamon #jegulus #rosekiller #starchaserrosekiller #james x regulus #james x barty #james x evan #angst #angsty fic #not really tho #its got lots of other things to balance it out like #smut #lots of smut #fluff #omegaverse

[llumimoon]

started at the top of my oakworthy playlist this morning and now I'm at what I like to call the Fucked Up Arc

#cal rambles #this change imo starts when Obsessed With You comes on #but i hit my fav little order of songs within this area #which is cough it out -> sweet talk -> tattooed tears #its rlly funny bc this fucked up middle bit is most of the playlist #and ends at Flaws i think #and its cute for a little bit again #and then BOOM . HERMIE DIES #AND ITS ANGSTY AGAIN #the emotional whiplash

[phantomskeep]

WIP Wednesday!!

Omg I didn't forget!! Holy shit!!!

Anyways, this week's WIP Wednesday includes some bits from Putting the "Fun" Back in "Funeral"! Enjoy :)

...

Putting the "Fun" Back in "Funeral":

The piercing neon green of his eyes bled back into their usual icy blue, though the curious look did not leave. “Why’s that? And who names their kid Batman?”

Part of the City Spirit’s dark cloud tried to nudge him back towards his couch. “The Batman,” she began, “is a hero who operates to protect my city. He was born here and donned his cape in order to help those in need from the many criminals who call my territory home.”

Danny gave an involuntary awed noise. “So you guys have heroes here, too?” A dark tendril of smog wrapped around the back of the couch, resting gently against Danny’s neck.

The idea of having other heroes around was something that greatly appealed to Danny. Being the lone super-powered protector of Amity Park for so long took its toll on the young man, even with his human companions. It just wasn’t the same, being the only one with advanced abilities. He had to take the bigger hits, he had to be the one to save his friends if they got into too great of a bind, he had to be the one to try and take on the burden of Amity Park alone when they all went off to find their place in the world. With great power comes great responsibility, after all. And being the Ghost King? Well, Danny had more than enough "great power" to spare.

The thought was just as sobering as it was exciting. Other heroes, super or not, meant that there was something to have caused those heroes to come into play. Some great villain, or a world-ending disaster, or even large crime rates. Lady Gotham only said criminals, though, so maybe there were no supervillains Danny needed to worry about.

“Yes, in fact there is a large society of both heroes and villains.”

Well, it was a nice thought while it lasted.

“But many of the aliens you were so excited to hear about are among those heroes.” Gotham continued, not noticing Danny’s sudden mid-afterlife crisis. “There is the Batman, who is one of the founders of the Justice League. Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Arrow, and many others are all part of this superhero society - the Justice League.”

“Okay,” Danny was desperately trying to keep up with this sudden information. “So, Batman is a super-powered dude who helped to start an entire squad of superheroes?”

“He has no powers. The Dark Knight is just a man, same with Green Arrow and many others. They simply are able to keep up with the aliens, gods, and metas.”

Danny paused, taking in a breath. He touched his fingers together, pressing his palms flat. Another breath was taken, this one deeper than the last. With every ounce of teenage angst he still had within him, Danny lifted his hands up together to rest against his forehead before bringing them down in an arch that would have made Sam proud. “What the fuck.”

A laugh rolled from Gotham’s form, his guardian sneakily tightening her protective hold on him. “What the fuck indeed, Little One.”

“Okay, okay-” Danny’s voice cracked with indignation, “So regular every-day humans fight supervillains and are able to keep up with gods? And super-powered aliens?”

“Yes.”

“And one of those humans - who named himself after a bat - is the sole protector of your lair? Besides yourself? And he doesn’t let any of his superhero friends help him?”

“I never said he worked alone. Though, for a long time he did not have any help.”

“Lady G,” Danny said again with exasperation. “I repeat: what the fuck.”

Her only response was to laugh at his expense as he continued to moan about how he couldn’t seem to escape crazy people, no matter what dimension he runs to. The space shared by two multi-dimensional beings filled with an easy warmth.

“So,” Danny started after a couple minutes of his grumbling. “Superpowered people aren’t allowed in your city because one of your protectors is just a man in a… What, fursuit? A crime-fighting fursuit?” He paused, considering, before rapidly moving on. “But there are super-powered people in this dimension who are also heroes.”

“Yes, that is all true.”

The young man took a second, silently thinking, before speaking again. “Okay, okay,” He started. “And the chances that I’m going to have to just… steal all of these ghostly artifacts is pretty high, right?”

“Again, you are correct.”

“So,” Danny said, stretching out the word. “Chances are they’re going to think I’m some sort of villain.”

Gotham made a noise akin to two cars scraping against each other as she hesitated to answer. “There is a chance of that, yes.”

...

“Great,” he bemoaned, bonelessly flopping around his couch. “Guess it’s time to pull out the ol’ acting shoes. Welcome to Danny’s One-Stop Shop for Villainy.”

Mmmm Dead on Main my beloved :) Putting the "Fun" Back in "Funeral" chapter 4 should be posted sometime this week! I just need to actually finish writing a couple of POVs ^-^

#dead on main #DCxDP #DPxDC #danny phantom #my poor sweet baby #wip wednesday #wip #i told myself i wasnt going to write angst #and then i started my side project #and so far its only angst #putting the fun back in funeral #thats been my non-angsty story #which is weird #ngl #anyways back to the grind

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

#snap chats #//twenty page google doc in the background// ignore that. it's mostly for comedic purposes #might also be my fault idk sorry about that. allegedly. idk ive had like three people tell me they started to ship them cause of me 🧍‍♂️ #@mementoasts is another person who's drawn masadai and whose stuff i love and am inspod by .. i love their disneyland fic sm ... #there was another artist on twitter who posted a neat drawing of them but i cant remember who they were and i didnt bookmark it //screams// #recently there's been ANOTHER masadai artist ive started following on twitter - @wifekiryu. his account's n/s/f/w fyi before you go looking #he has a tumblr too @foxdies. i say cause i realized as much recently vjeaKLGJALKGJ #oh but I GUESS ill get deeper into why. /i/ personally ship masadai or whatever #first off they're opposing factions yet their character alignments Do Not Match their roles. stereotypically anyway #aoki who leads the 'surface' of society and is meant to be an admirable figure and someone 'just' when really. he sucks LMAO #though that's not atypical of politicians but just from a stereotypical This Is A Respectable Individual perspective of his role #daigo on the other hand leads the 'underbelly' of society- yk comprised of dangerous criminals and outcasts and whatnot #yet as we know him daigo's compassionate and considerate of his men- he doesnt treat them like tools like aoki does #if put in a room with the two daigo would be most people's choice of person to hang out with. probably open a trapdoor on aoki tbh #and i think thats really cool and epic i always love that kinda Subverting Expectations thing #theres also the fact they both started off like. edgy/angsty in the franchise and then brush up down the line #masato does a stronger 180. publicly. obviously but its still really funny they both have to get their act together #if you wanna talk about in-text reasons. there really is none LMAO I TELLS YOU masadai is pure crack #but if i wanted to pull a muscle reaching then there's daigo being on aoki's side while everyone else is on arakawa's during the funeral #im lying of course. mitsu was behind him. rgg tryna make me forget mitsu exist .... put him back in y8 .... #and ofc ichi joins that side to even out the seating but moving on another Goofy Reason is arakawa being like #'the chairman and my son are like p much the same age Surely he knows how he thinks :)' #and then i just think daigo being all smarmy about outsmarting aoki is really goofy and im choosing to interpret that as personal #they both also have issues with their dad. s. dad/s/. anyway. #tbh the google doc tag was a joke but i really could sit here and list every dumb reason why i think theyre funny together #like i started going over the tag limit so uhhhh yeah needless to say i have a lot of. dumb reasons 💀💀💀💀 #one day ill use the main text for long rambles like this but todays not that day Point Is my imagination is rampant im afraid #so the short and sweet of it is I Think It's Funny. And They'd Be Terrible Together. Which Is Why It's Funny. #and the unfortunate part is anything i find funny i obsess over for a year so. //gestures to the mountain of bullshit thats my masadai tag/

[inbetweenhours]

hey btw everyone should read Lily White, Poppy Red by Green_Life_Lily it and the first fic of its series have been so important to me I've been reading as they update for a while now, since the first one. But chapter 51 of Lily White, Poppy Red is so beautifully written im so crazy about it rn and i need everyone to know go go go!

#its a flower husbands series set in 3rd life and then Empires smp with a continual plotline between both #its really really good incredibly angsty and with its fair share of horror but it has its moments of sweetness and they really shine #i really cannot impress how in love with these fics i am <33 #hourspost #empires smp #empires smp 1 #3rd life #life series #mind the tags ofc but like god i love this fic

[wazzappp]

uhh random blessing bc why not *waves hand in a circular motion on your blog*

if it hasn't happened yet, then may the man himself Felipe Smith come and praise thy blog. make haste. 🤞

*looks at the art I just posted*

What curse have you brought upon this wretched land

#THATS SWEET DUDE THATS REALLY SWEET AND THANK YOU BUT AAAAG #WE PUT HIS VERY SERIOUS VERY ANGSTY CHARACTER IN A MAGICAL GIRL FIT. THEN LAMIA-ED HIM. I DONT KNOW. IF PRAISE IS WHAT I WOULD GET. #i mean if he DID i would probably pass out from a heart attack but yk. unlikely. #i appreciate your magic spell and i fear its consequences. thank you <3 #ghost rider #asks

[starswallowingsea]

I got inspired by the mamagi posts by @nguyenfinity but unfortunately I am on a tragedy bend with my writing ideas so I had to make it sad (just a story idea under the cut not any actual writing)

i had an idea for just a little like. drabble of rinne having a little shrine to her in niki's apartment that niki only finds like two or three years down the road (but still pre !! Main story) which has some offerings to her and theres like a specific day each year rinne just fucks off all day and niki cant find him and at first he's like. well rinne's out of my hair idc where he is but niki's a smart guy and connects the dots and is like. oh. oh oh that's why he leaves for a day and a half every year when he finds the little shrine tucked away in a shoebox or smth.

niki takes so long looking for rinne bc he's like. realistically she (mamagi) wont be buried in the city but also he's not just going back to his village right? and takes forever to find him bc rinne is also not at any of the pachinko parlors and it takes like. All fucking day before Niki has like. A realization and goes out to the edge of town and then some and there's Rinne sitting by a tree and he looks sad and lonely but hes asleep bc hes been there all day probably hasnt eaten anything and Niki just comes up to him and wiggles under his arm and is like. Wanna talk about it? To a drowsy rinne who says no but appreciates the gesture and they just stay like that for the rest of the night.

Maybe like the year before the main story rinne finally tells him abt his mom and they have a little moment together thats just basking in each other's presence and inviting ghost mamagi to be with them or smth

#shay speaks #shay writes #<- eh kind of #i copied most of this out of mine and lis' dms from this morning #ur really only missing me complaining abt the bus lol #i added some details tho from that #this one ends kind of sweet but its very. angsty #thinks abt ghost rinniki au again #ill rb that in a minute uu #also maybe next week ill start writing for fun again. once the horrors of finals have passed #knowing me this thing would end up being like 5k word though. not a drabble

[sageofthestarz]

Looking through my wips rn thinking ya'know maybe I am a whore at heart

#My google docs is almost out of storage #between dnd and writing ita screwed #I have three I'm jumping betwen when inspo strikes #Raindrop ofc my beloved #somw angsty SwissTom shit #and a very new to the pack Dew messing around with someone for the first time #Its Ifrit #I love Ifrit I don't talk about him enough #I have my own versions of the characters in my head that have very specific backstorys that i hope to write into some long form fic #Dew had a very rough time being tossed around in the pit bwteen work or in general #Ifrit shows him that sex is meant for pleasure and love for not only the other person but himself #its really sappy #and sweet #and really really emotional tbh its why i cant finish it #I think im projecting too much onto them #might keep that Ifrit one private tbh #im rambling goodbye

[shehsart]

Most people don't get dabihawks, it's definitely not the lovey dovey ship it's supposed to be freaking nasty. It's an affair gone horribly wrong, just pure toxic yaoi madness with a tragic end. I think that's unique and that's why I like it.

#hawks killing twice: top 10 anime betrayals #your fanon portrayal can be whatever but I generally love this one #ship dabi with any other adult league member shigaraki twice its sweet maybe a little cute #with hawks he makes him go freaking insane #its angsty its violent #its my hATESHIP

[blorbologist]

@essayofthoughts and I have been juggling tiefling!Percy brainworms the last few days and now you get to too <3

(wish I had time to clean this up but my next week is busy af so consider this a ~taste~ - Essay's writing is just as delicious, trust me ;P)

#critical role #critical role fanart #tiefling!percy #cr percy #percival de rolo #god yall im SO hyped for this AU #its got Everything: new angsty angles to certain scenes/dynamics #some extra soft and sweet domino effects... #*its just Very Very Hot holy Shit*

[matryosika]

currently writing the most descriptive, awkward and real smut scene in my three years of writing fanfiction

#its literally a first time for both characters and neither of them know exactly what to do #its sweet but at the same time i want to get this over with so i can write the filthy and angsty smut i like #this scene is background anyways but i figured i should describe it because whatever i felt like it #it wouldnt change a thing if i described it or just made a summary but im2 #2500 words in so yeah

[tangerinesteve]

been thinking about steve harrington wearing skirts and dresses and pretty soft things again.... might have to do something about it

#like WRITE SOMETHING #i already have the beginning in my head and its kinda angsty but i saw that sometimes and it just ends up sweet #steve harrington #it will be steddie so I'll tag it with that cuz yeah #steddie #mine