Winter❄️
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“Most people got it wrong. They thought Käärijä was just a stage name. If the guy was off the clock, you’d get Jere. If only.”
Bojan is tired of the standstill with Jere. Surely there must be a way to ignite their hopeful romance, perhaps in January when they are both on a break from touring. Alas, the Finnish winter is chilly and harsh, at times even cruel.
“Käärijä, Jere, who the fuck cared anymore. Same shit in a different package. Bojan blocked him and allowed the tears to fall.”
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- Part 1 of Winter❄️
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“One can't winter here,
because ‘here’ is already gone,
leaving only moments rustling dark
under rubber soles.”A poem I wrote for Jere’s 30th birthday, including the original Finnish and an English translation. The Bojan allusions are quite veiled there but if you know they are there you’ll spot them. :)
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- Part 3 of Bojere poetry
- Part 1 of Suomeksi / In Finnish 🇫🇮
- Part 2 of Winter❄️
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 23
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Getting Lucky With an Extra Serving of Nuts (A Christmas Special) by Joymuffin
Fandoms: Käärijä (Musician), Joker Out (Band)
09 Dec 2023
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“Cognac was one of those alcoholic drinks that Bojan just couldn’t understand, but tonight he was going to let their disagreements fall to the side.”
Christmas 2027 is looming, finally their first Christmas together, but the big question is causing grief. Where are they going to celebrate it? In Finland or Slovenia? And what if the option they choose ends up sucking?
A holiday special set on the No Walk of Shame timeline, but can be read on its own, too. Fairly angsty for a Christmas story (not because something bad happens, but more like people tend to have Expectations for Christmas), yet it all gets better.
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- Part 5 of No Walk of Shame
- Part 5 of In the Future 🚀
- Part 3 of Winter❄️
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“I worked on a cruise ship. You learn to recognize it pretty quickly if someone is going to lunge at you or another person.”
Jere makes a surprise visit to London to discuss some pressing matters with Bojan, but things don’t turn out like anyone expected and a kerfuffle ensues.
A fic about friendship, beds, geographical variation in the laws of thermodynamics and aspirations for acting rationally, whatever that means. Some people find heavy physics books helpful for lulling them to sleep, others need something more …physical.
The Jance stuff is on the background yet integral to the plot.
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- Part 4 of Winter❄️
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“The winter probably was peopled with strange creatures who acted mysteriously and freakishly.”
- Tove Jansson“Watafak, Bojan?”
- JereJere and Bojan embark on a holiday on the Julian Alps, but nothing goes like it was supposed to. At least there is glögi and other important natural resources, and Spanish is vaguely easier than Finnish.
Most of the main drama and plot points left out of the tags for spoiler reasons (but also because some things would be hard to describe or sound misleading).
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- Part 5 of Winter❄️
- Part 10 of Balkan 🇸🇮 🇷🇸 🇬🇷
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“I have an idea”, Jere said. “We go to the garbage hill.”
“Sounds wonderful.”
Sometimes decisions are complicated. Even if your heart knows the answers, it’s not always easy to listen to them.
Sometimes it’s a struggle to get things to work out, though maybe it just takes more time.
Some months are colder than others. Sometimes there is snow and on other occasions it rains, yet it’s always hot in the sauna.
“Probably for a reason. Gaze into the abyss and the abyss will gaze back into you.
Symbiotically shared burnouts and existential crises probably did not qualify as a ‘benefit’, but ‘friends with detriments’ didn’t quite have the same ring to it.
Of course Bojan was still horny as fuck, but he tried not to focus on it too much.”
Some of this is set in the colder months of 2025, while the later chapters take place several years in the future, and most tags only pertain to one of these stretches of time while a few apply to both. :) As usual, any stuff involving them with other people has been minimized. And the angst is mostly confined to the first chapter.
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- Part 9 of In the Future 🚀
- Part 6 of Winter❄️
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“Everything was a lot. There was so much he wanted to give to Jere but everything?”
A long-awaited skiing trip to the Julian Alps, clearly too good to be true. It starts with an aircraft almost getting lost, watafak, which you wouldn’t think is a common occurrence, and then other things vanish, too, and surely this couldn’t be happening?
And then there’s a feather, just a tiny little feather, but that’s the point where Bojan’s life starts turning upside down. Nothing makes sense anymore, yet once he gets used to it, it’s actually pretty nice. Even if it’s based on a lie, something that’s hard to push out of his mind. Lying is bad, probably, or is it?
Jure
Yeah, the closet might not be the best place for hiding Jere.😏Jan
Great plan, Bojč. Definitely not at all sus or anything.Hard to explain without being very misleading or spoiling everything, but this story has a lot of cozy and romantic vibes, smut, drama and plot with some angst and no one incurs serious harm.
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- Part 14 of Balkan 🇸🇮 🇷🇸 🇬🇷
- Part 7 of Winter❄️
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“No, Bojan thought. This couldn’t really be, even Jere wouldn’t do something as ridiculous as that.”
There is a weirdo living at the Ljubljana airport where Bojan works. He worries the guy is going to end up like those sad outcasts in some documentaries who spent years in such a limbo. Not if he can help it.
While the dude isn’t immune to Bojan’s charms, he is still stubborn and reluctant to leave the place. Admittedly, there are many things you can do with the facilities inside an airport.
Perhaps the way to a man’s heart goes through his stomach, the furthermost gate in the terminal and several different wetrooms. And somewhere only a Finnish weirdo might consider sneaking, oh God.
Neither Hallmark Christmas nor a crackfic, but a sweet and spicy, very Christmas-y Christmas story with a decent plot and tons of Bojere shenanigans.
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- Part 12 of AU 🌎
- Part 8 of Winter❄️
- Part 16 of Balkan 🇸🇮 🇷🇸 🇬🇷