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• Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed by souleta

  Fandoms: Bittersweet - Ayejay.Jvrozx (Webcomic)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M, M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  29 Jun 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Benjamin Brookes/Richard Collins
  • Donna/Brady
  • Ben/Lola
  • Benjamin Brookes/Lola Lane
  • Richard “Ricky” Collins/Benjamin “Ben” Brookes
  • Ricky (Bittersweet)/Ben (Bittersweet)
  • Bricky - Relationship
  • Benjamin Brookes
  • Richard Collins
  • Skeeter Malark
  • Richard “Ricky” Collins
  • Benjamin "Ben" Brookes
  • Lola Lane
  • Lewis Lane
  • Diana Brookes
  • Brady
  • Mr. Wilkins
  • Donna Brookes
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • religious trauma
  • Bittersweet OCs
  • Gay
  • mlm
  • bricky
  • 1950s
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Mutual Pining
  • Angst
  • virtuosos
  • star-crossed lovers
  • Homosexuality
  • I Wish Stonewall Inn Came Earlier
  • Forbidden Love
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt
  • Religious Guilt
  • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
  • Pining

  Summary

  Taking place in the perspective of numerous characters, Benjamin Brookes comes face to face with reality roiling down on him. Devotion knows no bounds, that dark thumb of fate!

   

  ". . . by God was he beauty personified."

   

  (Warning: There are very brief mentions/descriptions of violence and suicide)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  13,034

  Chapters:

  8/?

  Comments:

  20

  Kudos:

  66

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