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1. 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:

   68

   Bookmarks:

   4

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