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Arthur's met the girl of his dreams, but all lovers come with a past. "Every fairy tale has a baddie at the beginning."
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'You don't really need to do that,' Duo said. 'Check in on me.'
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'You're here to support me,' Quatre said, aiming for upbeat, and landing on toneless. He tried again, adding, 'Thank you,' and achieved something that only sounded mildly despairing.
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He lays there realising Quatre is holding his hand, and that it feels good.
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- Part 1 of Concept Variables
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Heero does not see wisdom in this idea. But he says nothing. He's done foolish things before, after all. Quatre is entitled to a few mistakes.
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- Part 2 of Concept Variables
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They're not bound by anything but what they choose. And the choice to choose it together.
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- Part 3 of Concept Variables
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Did it matter so much that this was the crown prince of the Winner kingdom? Or that Kaelin was half his age and not getting any older just because that would make it suck less. They'd spent the entire evening on the foreplay, and the prospect of a long night with a sullen would-be lover and a case of blue balls was more than he could take.
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- Part 1 of Growing Up Is Optional
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Sasha writes an essay to get out of a required course in Life Skills.
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Finn and Puck are nearly finished with college, and despite discussing their individual plans, they still haven’t talked about the simple fact that they could be in different cities as early as June of 2016.
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Choromatsu has left, and life is going on. More or less.
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They made the decision to drive to Myrtle Beach when Holster found the fucking sweetest cottage near the beach.
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It's Alicia who says, "You know, Eric, you have a voice for radio."
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A heartwarming tale of growing up, moving on with life, and having a threesome with your best friends along the way.
Post-game, spoiler warnings apply.
Set after "the course not charted" but it's not a prerequisite for this to make sense.
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There are moments in life when being a woman can really suck. Thank goodness that Natasha had a boyfriend like Steve to brighten her day.
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- Part 2 of Perfection Never Looked So Good
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Jackson isn't sure he likes being an adult as much as he thought he would. Stiles shows him that being an adult is very worthwhile.
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Hawkeye Does America by damalur for Odyle
Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel 616, Hawkeye (Comics), Young Avengers (Comics)
28 Oct 2016
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Kate Bishop, a.k.a. Hawkeye, is the greatest sharpshooter known to man — yeah, even better than that other guy. This is what happens when she hits the Mother Road.
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Short Shorts by LLN3dseestheLight
Fandoms: Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Teen Wolf (TV), Criminal Minds, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Incredible Hulk - All Media Types, Merlin (TV), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
03 Oct 2018
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All my short finished stories.
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Never Have I Ever by Kimmy
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy - Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
04 Feb 2017
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Twice in the past, Magnus wanted to propose, to Camille and to Alexander.
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High school is over, and the boys are off to college. It's finally time for Tweek to learn to stand on his own, and not rely on his boyfriend for everything. Growing up sucks, but sadly it's mandatory.
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- Part 3 of Creek Past Season 19
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You are nineteen, and you are pregnant. You want to laugh, you want to cry. This is absurd. This is not what you had planned for your life.
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“How much longer did you say you were on holiday for?”
Louis furrows his brows, tilting his head curiously at Niall. “Another month. Brisbane and then over to NZ. Why?”
The devilish smile that curls Niall’s lips is enough to increase Louis’ heart rate. “Fancy swapping your backpacking accommodation and economy airfares for 5-star hotels and business class flights?”
Louis feels his eyes nearly bug out of his head and even though he thinks he knows where this is going, he still asks, “What’re you saying, Nialler?”
“I’m saying… How would you like to be the replacement guitar tech on Harry Styles’ tour?”
OR the one where Harry is a rock star on a world tour, Niall is his tech crew manager, Liam is his tour manager, and Louis is in the right place at the right time.
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Dumpster Fires Verse by deniigiq
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Daredevil (TV), Deadpool (2016), Deadpool - All Media Types, Hawkeye (Comics), Iron Man (Movies), Jessica Jones (TV), Marvel, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, POKEMON Detective Pikachu (2019), She-Hulk, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
21 Oct 2019
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My collection of Team Red stories because they are all hot messes. Except Peter. Two-Thirds of them are hot messes.
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One red popsicle. One phone number. One proud brother. Two adorable boys.
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Keith helps Shiro out at work, where he meets Lance for the first time. Needless to say, they hit it off.
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Keith is dumb and gets his stupid ass poisoned, meaning he needs to spend time resting on earth and the only family that has the space and time to care for him is the McClain family. It's the classic 'living with and being cared for by the love of your life who is 'straight' and not interested what so ever but like, is obviously interested' trope.
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Seokjin enters Yoongi's pub on the eve of his birthday.
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I'd rather be dead than cool by namging for introserendipity
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
27 Feb 2021
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"Wait," Jungkook pauses, "Namjoon.... Namjoon..." he mutters to himself, then he perks up. "As in Kim Namjoon?"
"Uh, I mean.." Namjoon flounders, "Yeah, but there's a lot of Kim Namjoon's out there in the world, probably-"
"Kim Namjoon." Jungkook repeats, "that was the name of the guy who used to babysit me."
Namjoon blinks and peers at the photo album. And yeah, okay, now that he thinks about it he remembers one of the kids he used to watch might have been called Jungkook, but that kid was a scrawny little 8 year old with a snotty nose and chipped nail varnish that he used to apply himself. He wasn't a hunky, sharp jawed dude who was ever going to grow up to get jacked, with his big, kind bambi eyes--
The same eyes that stare back at him now.
Shit.
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namjoon's a dysfunctional adult playing at being a successful producer who doesn't need people to know how bad he is at adulting. jungkook's the starstruck boy he used to babysit who's apparently used the past 7 years to get hot and become a functional member of society. unfortunately, to namjoon's dismay, they're neighbours. chaos follows
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27 Feb 2021
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Feb 27 2021
"Yoongi-chi is right, these meals have vegetables in them. Do you know what that is, Joon-ah? Vegetables, they're what the flavouring in your instant noodle packs are vaguely based off."
" Vaguely." Yoongi echoed.
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Seokjin and Yoongi go fishing on three separate occasions, one of which involves a duck-shaped paddle boat and extremely risky activities.
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It’s Tokyo 2021, backdrop for the XXXII Summer Olympiad Games. Oikawa Tooru returns to Japan after a triumphant, eight-year long run as pro setter in Argentina’s professional volleyball League. And it's been just as long since Hajime watched him disappear across the oceans, maybe never to return.
On reuniting with your best friend, standing atop the world stage, and trying to catch wisps of a golden boy. An Olympic tale, one lifetime in the making.
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More Walls (Collected Along the Way) by Anna (pineconepickers)
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
06 Nov 2020
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“It seems like the kind of thing one ought to know, right? Whether you have a husband or not.”
Seokjin has been busy since his break-up with Namjoon seven years earlier, with swift promotions at his father’s investment firm, while Namjoon has, perhaps annoyingly, become one of the most prolific authors in Korea. Never mind that, of course, because Seokjin has moved on! It’s a bit of a shock, then, for Seokjin to discover that he is married – to his ex-boyfriend Namjoon.
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nov 10 2020
Last read: June 5 2021smut @ chapt 3
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“Fast-forward ten years and here they were, with Namjoon as the winner of the Hankyoreh Literature Award, the Kim Yong-ik Novel Prize, and the Surim Literary Award, to name a few. And yet, for all of those written words hanging between them, neither of them had any more to offer.”
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“Oh, fuck you!” Namjoon snapped back. “You always treated me like a kid – I thought about that a lot afterwards, you know! You thought me wanting to be an author was some childish dream that—”“But it was!” he cut in, feet slipping on the road as he came closer. “It was! Who makes it as a writer?! Who?! One of us had to be realistic, be the grown-up! So yeah, I stepped up – and you hated me for it!” He paused to get air in, an old ache in his heart. “But I never said you weren’t good, or talented, or deserving of selling your work, and if you’re standing here yelling at me like I ever said that, then you’re full of shit!”
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“but Namjoon was striking a different chord with him that was making him feel so fucking wanted and filthy, yet safe and adored.”
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“Hey, so,” Namjoon said, hands still in his pockets as he turned to face Seokjin. “What are we doing?” Namjoon slowly moved closer. “You should ask me again.”“Ask you what?”
“Why I’ve never moved back here.”
Quietly, Seokjin asked, “Why have you never moved back to Korea?”
“Because you’re Korea,” Namjoon said firmly. Seokjin blinked, and Namjoon shook his head. “I don’t see how I can live here and not have you be mine. It’s torture. This, right now? It’s torture.” Namjoon stepped closer, voice urgent. “Tell me to stop and I will – if you don’t want to hear this, then I’ll walk out right now and I—”
“Don’t,” he cut in, panicking. “Don’t do that. Please don’t do that. I can’t breathe thinking you’ll go.”
Namjoon’s eyes were large, sincere – but sympathetic too. “In that case… I need you to know that I don’t care anymore. Okay? I don’t care about all the things we’ve been angry about for years. I don’t care about the arguments about jobs, parents, other fuck-ups… We have so many fuck-ups. We could build a shrine to them at this point, alright? But I don’t care because I’ve forgiven us. You and me both. I’ve forgiven us.” Namjoon took in a deep breath. “But if you haven’t forgiven me? If you’re still punishing me or mad at me for what I did back then, then you need to let me know right now.”
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“This is wrong.” He whispers with a shake of his head. “Namjoon, we need to stop this.”
Namjoon’s jaw clenches as he regards him heavily, with much more grief than Jungkook would like. “If I knew how to stop, I would” is the reply he gets. He sees the want in Namjoon’s eyes, swirling with conflict, and Jungkook doesn’t understand how Namjoon could want him this bad, so heartbreakingly bad -
And still not want him at all.
“Let’s get back to the party, hyung. Your fiance must be looking for you."
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Namjoon is getting married and it's not to Jungkook, but somehow he always finds himself waking up in his bed.
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18 Sep 2020
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a goddamn masterpiece. I wanted to scream and sob but nothing would come out. GODDDDDD everything about this was so brilliant thought-out. the ot7 friendships are everything. They’re all old HS friends and there’s Vegas trips and flashbacks and missed moments and longing and depression and side ships and plot twists and gut wrenching sad shit and babies and adulting and fuck I love this so much.
“re: “at least I didn’t kill my friend” Jungkook spits back
my notes — “pre-Jackson’s death you could tell that NJ had hesitations of some sort abt finally taking the leap with JK, stemming from simply being nervous, perhaps breaking the friend group up (as seen with yoonmin), internalized homophobia, being scared of homophobia (as seen with jimins incident). however post-Jackson’s death really shifted the idea of Namkook in many ways. not only did Jackson’s accident and death literally stop NJ from confessing but on NJ’s end, added another internal obstacle which is guilt. this is why NJ feels like he can never truly allow himself happiness w JK, even before ever getting together with yoonji. being with JK brings guilt bc the idea of being with JK is what killed Jackson to begin with by proxy. NJ probs doesn’t think he deserves happiness with the love of his life when that was what took someone else’s boyfriend one away. Much to think about.”
I CANT WAIT TO REREAD THIS TO CATCH ALL THE HINTS AND SHIT I MISSED KNOWING WHAT I KNOW NOWWWWWWWWWW
Sept 17 2020
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Call out my name and I'll be on my way by introserendipity
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
23 May 2020
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Namjoon just can't stand another day behind the counter at a local coffee shop, hoping that Jungkook will walk through the door he stares holes into.
Namjoon often daydreams that Jungkook will walk in, that he'll walk in and will truly remember him. That Jungkook will remember the night that they shared together, and how many unspoken words there were, and how it shouldn't have been left like it was between them.
But it was, and Jungkook never walks through the door.
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After a drunken night spent together, Namjoon and Jungkook drift apart.
They learn how to become friends again after the distance Jungkook forced between them.
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Just fall into place (you'll fall into me) by Pichitinha
Fandoms: To All the Boys I've Loved Before (Movies)
26 May 2020
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After going to different places for high school and only acknowledging the other's presence during most of college, Lara Jean and Peter reconnect during their last year at UVA and rekindle their childhood friendship, taking that now into the adult world.
"Ok, so we heard some incredibly bad first date stories," Peter starts and Lara Jean opens her mouth to say that she'd yet to hear some from him, but he goes on. "Tell me about a good date, then. What is Lara Jean's ideal first date in her romanticized mind?"
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She knows he's not going to give it up easily, so she turns to the honest route but in a deflecting way. "I just want it to be with someone that wants to be there with me and that at the end of it they're excited for a second one."
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A Lot of Edges Called Perhaps by hansbekhart
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
12 Apr 2020
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The funny part is - and it is a little funny, even if Wei Wuxian has no one left to share the joke with - they never have. Not anything. He has never kissed any part of Lan Zhan besides his slim hands; never been even partially undressed with him anywhere besides a miserable, xuanwu-infested cave. It’s always been like this between them, this simmering need, this desperate understanding: a knowledge so deep that it lives somewhere in his bones, that if he wanted to have Lan Zhan he could have him, and if Lan Zhan wanted Wei Wuxian he could have that too. But they never have.
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A Lot of Edges Called Perhaps
by hansbekhart
Wangxianficrecs post here. (Archived.)Dreamy style, and elegantly descriptive of emotions, motivations, bodies and environment. You can feel the deep, humid heat, and the racket of cicadas and the slow way everyone moves to cope. (Of course, I read this in the bath, and it's VERY hot, and I'm sweating like it's a hot springs, so that might be influencing me.)
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“How is he now?” he asks Jingyi.
Jingyi shrugs - not carelessly, but uncertainly. “He woke up this morning,” he says to Wei Wuxian. “But other than that, I don’t know. I flew out to find you as soon as he ordered it. He hadn’t told anyone he’d planned to meet you, so none of us knew! Sizhui was going to go, but he didn’t want to leave Hanguang Jun’s side, so I offered to do it. And now here I am! This is great. Hanguang Jun would turn me into dust if I came back home by myself. I thought I’d have to look all over Gusu for you, but now everything’s fine!”
Wei Wuxian, hands on his hips, huffs out a laugh. He leans back and wipes the sweat off his face with the back of his hand. “Everything’s fine,” he echoes, and shakes his head. “Well, let’s go.” He shakes Little Apple’s reins and starts moving towards Cloud Recesses once more.
Jingyi trails along. “Don’t you want to fly?” he asks, dismayed.
“Can’t fly with the donkey,” Wei Wuxian answers.
“No, but,” Jingyi says, “but aren’t you worried? Don’t you want to rush to Hanguang Jun’s side to nurse him back to health?”
Wei Wuxian looks over his shoulder to give the boy a hard, incredulous eye. Jingyi has the grace to look abashed. “Sorry, Senior Wei,” Jingyi says, and for a little while Wei Wuxian knows peace.
... [Once they reach Cloud Recesses] “This isn’t at all how I’d imagined our reunion, you know,” he tells Lan Zhan softly. “I thought I’d be flinging myself into your arms on a mountainside. But I suppose nursing you tenderly back to health might be an acceptably romantic compromise.”
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There’s a funny idea brewing in Yoongi's head, as his brain sloshes around in all the soju and vodka and wine he’s drank tonight. A funny idea that begins to feel more and more like a good one, as he zooms in on a picture of Jimin in a pair of shorts that really he shouldn’t have worn for an Instagram photo. Yoongi licks his lips, feeling...reckless.
Why not? he keeps asking himself. Why not?
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Or, Yoongi is twenty-seven, newly single, and feeling a little on-edge about it all.
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The war was over.
Or at least that’s what the papers said.
They’d been saying it, for months, as if people needed reminding.
Maybe they did.
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In which Harry and Draco both run away from their pasts and conveniently choose to hide in the same tiny American town.
It's super.
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Magnificent. Bravo. Great take on Harry/Draco, a romance where the two have lives, friends, conflicts and (a lot of) feelings.
This is amazing, read it!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18591952/chapters/44075971
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break up with your girlfriend 'cause i'm bored by IGotJams95 for fairycubs
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
05 Jul 2019
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playboy kim seokjin easily gets bored with his conquests. but there's one thing he never gets bored with: asking his roommate min yoongi to break up with his girlfriend because he's bored with the people he sleeps with.
it starts out as a joke.
it doesn't take too long before it stops being a joke.
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Single bachelor Dean bets he can have sex more times within a calendar year than his happily-married brother. But when Castiel – Dean’s roommate, best friend, and total virgin – asks Dean to be his First, Dean’s plan to bed numerous strangers goes up in smoke. Over the weeks, then the months, Cas becomes his go-to guy. His “fuck buddy”, if you will. But that doesn’t sound right. It doesn’t feel right. Dean was Cas’ First, but now he wants to be Cas’ Only. Now he’s gotta figure out how the heck to court a guy he’s successfully wooed a hundred times already.
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Dean's perpetually single and lonely in a crappy apartment in his hometown, with no end in sight to the physical and emotional issues that prevent him from moving forward or fully participating in a life and world that's passing him by. His new roommate's turning out to be a bro. A bro who has a shit-ton of loud gay sex in the bedroom across their hall, but life seems to be progressing and Dean discovers he doesn't have to be alone as he'd thought.
Complete, posting every day or so, all due to be posted by Christmas.
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see it all in bloom by aloneintherain
Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
31 Oct 2018
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I freaking love epistolary and this one is one that is very true to internet culture. A seamless mix of chats, social media, clickbait headlines, and prose. There’s even some AO3 “Hero RPF” listings, complete with massive Additional Tag lists and stats. I particularly appreciated the videos and images that we get the title and some of the comments, which allows for you to imagine the visual. Make sure to check all the links, some of them are memes and/or real world versions!
There are a few examples of UI text too which I appreciated. The “Mute chat” UI in particular got me right in the chest.
In addition to being a lovely example of my favorite literary device, this series delivers a very healing series of snapshots from a mostly-peaceful post-canon. Highly recommended.