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A World That Exists, Now by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
03 Apr 2026
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Whatever you do at the crossroads, keep going forward.
The King is gone. Derek Hutchins is alive, somehow, improbably, stubbornly alive, and Avery is not going to waste that.Recovery is mostly boring. It involves bad hospital coffee, a couch that smells like laundry detergent, breakfast eggs, and a YouTuber who reads academic papers about forbidden knowledge at 2am because he refuses to let Derek be alone in this.
It also, eventually, involves Skywars.
Derek is very bad at Skywars. He is working on it.Series
- Part 1 of something that exists now
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what's in your inventory by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
03 Apr 2026
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What's in your inventory?
The last thing D3rLord3 ever said to AveryTheMayo in that world was a question. A distraction. A way to push him somewhere safe before the door closed.
Derek Hutchins wakes up at 3am and cannot convince himself he is real. He presses his hand to his own chest and counts his heartbeat and it doesn't help, and then Avery is there, sitting on the kitchen floor, asking him about chip flavors like it's the most natural thing in the world.
It helps. Avery helps. Derek is slowly, reluctantly, gratefully learning to let him.The next morning Derek tries to make breakfast and sets off the smoke alarm. The eggs are perfect. The toast is a casualty. Everything is fine.
(first time Avery realizes how deep it goes. first time Derek realizes he doesn't have to hold it alone.)Series
- Part 2 of something that exists now
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seventeen things that weren't on the list by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
05 Apr 2026
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The list had nine things on it. They come home with twenty-six.
Derek's first grocery run since the hospital goes like this: the lights are too bright and the store is too loud and there are twelve varieties of bread and his brain quietly goes offline in front of all of them. Avery notices in approximately four seconds and steers them to the crisp aisle without making it a thing.
They spend forty minutes in the supermarket. Derek's shoulders come down from his ears somewhere around the hobnob debate. They name a succulent after the King in Yellow.
On the bus home, Derek asks if they are friends. Avery has several feelings about this.
(or: the one where they finally, finally sort out what they are. it takes a classification, a label, and one very specific data point. also a plant.)
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- Part 3 of something that exists now
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For Avery by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
06 Apr 2026
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Three weeks into their shared Minecraft world, Derek builds Avery a library.
It has a pitched roof and reading nooks and lanterns placed at exactly the right height and a sign above the fireplace that says for Avery, so we have somewhere to put things we want to keep.Avery tries to tell Derek it's beautiful. Derek says it's just a Minecraft building. Avery says it's beautiful again. Derek says the farm was already finished so he had time. Avery says it's beautiful a third time and waits.
Derek says thank you. It comes out right this time.Later Avery falls asleep against Derek's chest on the couch and Derek pulls the redistributed blanket over both of them and thinks about the sign and decides that this, the lamp, the apartment, the ordinary Thursday night weight of someone he loves asleep against him, is also something he wants to keep.
(a fic about grain direction, reading nooks, and learning to let good things be said about you.)
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- Part 4 of something that exists now
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Sunflower Maintenance by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
07 Apr 2026
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Avery's pothos is dying. Derek knows this because Derek has retained, from eleven days of cosmic knowledge, a detailed and apparently permanent understanding of botany.
He repots the pothos. He audits the windowsill. He acquires perlite. He talks to the plants, all of them, individually, with the same calm focused attention he gives everything, and Avery watches from the doorway and decides he is completely normal about this.
He is not normal about this.
Also Derek and Hastur have an ongoing disagreement that has been running for several weeks and shows no signs of resolution, and Avery buys sunflower seeds, and they talk about balconies in the careful sideways way they talk about most things, and a seedling comes up one day late and Derek crouches down to be level with it and says hi, you're late, but you're here, and Avery is so fine he has never been less fine in his life.
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- Part 5 of something that exists now
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co-host (n.) by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
10 Apr 2026
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The first video they film together goes like this:
Avery forgets his intro four times because Derek keeps looking at him like that. Derek is completely, infuriatingly, unflappably calm in the way of someone who has stared into the face of eldritch horror and found a Minecraft camera comparatively manageable. They argue about biscuits on camera. Derek says this is nice in a tone of mild surprise and four seconds of footage gets clipped forty thousand times.Avery wakes up the next morning to a subscriber count that has done something vertical. Derek is already reading the comments. He is being smug about this. He is calling it pleased. These are the same thing.
(a fic about filming, the mark on the wall, grain direction, and the particular joy of introducing someone you love to forty-seven thousand strangers who were always going to love them too.)
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- Part 6 of something that exists now
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What the King Left Behind by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
10 Apr 2026
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The King is gone. Derek knows this. The King is gone and Derek is here and the life they have built is real and good and full of plants with Latin labels and forty-seven thousand subscribers and butterfly pasta on Wednesday nights.
The fault lines are also real.
It starts on a Monday with a book that mentions stars. By Friday Derek has spent a week navigating cracks in the wall between what he knows and what humans are supposed to know, and he is exhausted, and he has said none of this out loud, and Avery has noticed all of it and said nothing and simply stayed close in the particular Avery way of staying close that does not announce itself and does not demand anything and is somehow the most useful thing in the world.
On Friday afternoon Derek says: I think I need to talk to someone professional about this.Avery says: I know a really good therapist.
Derek says: of course you do.
Avery says: I looked her up three weeks ago. Just in case.That is, somehow, the most romantic thing anyone has ever said to Derek Hutchins.
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- Part 7 of something that exists now
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In From the Rain by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
13 Apr 2026
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Avery finds a very small, very wet kitten in the rain and makes a questionable decision.
Derek insists on being practical about it.
Somewhere between vet visits, research, and the kitten falling asleep on everything he owns, Derek becomes a cat person.
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- Part 8 of something that exists now
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Good At Hiding It by I_ate_rocks
Fandoms: Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series)
14 Apr 2026
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Avery has spent months being fine. He's very good at it, the shower, the editing room, the laundry. The not-fine happens in careful pieces, in rooms Derek isn't in, at times Derek isn't watching.
The thing about Derek is: he's always watching.
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- Part 9 of something that exists now