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Gustave Virlogeux has been in love with his best friend for nine years.
Why hasn't he confessed, you ask? Well, there is the tiny, insignificant problem that said best friend is straight.Or at least he thinks he is straight. Because for about a year now, there's been a little voice in the back of Verso Dessendre's head asking some very pointed questions about a certain engineering student, who also happens to be his best friend.
And what better place to figure this mess out than four days at a music festival: with their entire friend group, one (1) very small tent, and a spreadsheet containing thirty-six (36) of Gustave's failed confession attempts?
Or: five times Verso thinks he might be bi, five times Gustave almost confesses, and the one time, finally, nobody interrupts.
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28 Sep 2026
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la portée des corps (the bearing of bodies) by river_low
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
16 Oct 2026
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Over ten years after he burned his canvases at the top of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and very publicly went off the rails, Verso Dessendre returns home, a prodigal son trailing rumors of a deeply private family grief. In those same years, Gustave LeClair has built an academic career restoring the aging bridges over the Seine, helping them bear the weight of both history and the humdrum day-to-day. If only he could do the same for his personal life.
They meet. The confusion is mutual.Bookmarked by Meadhbh
24 Sep 2026
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Modern AU - by Gustave’s definition, he is most certainly not a virgin, (frottage to the point of mutual completion back in his high school days) but that definition just isn’t doing it anymore at 32, so he goes to a bar for a hookup just to get rid of all of his fucking nerves about the whole thing, not even expecting it to be a good time.
Cue in Verso, who just goes home with Gustave expecting a quick one night stand - only to once he finds out about how Gustave’s never had real sex before, to show him just how good it can be, over multiple hookups, slowly but surely falling completely for him and stopping his fuck-boi tendencies
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23 Sep 2026
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a city built half upon the water and wholly upon its own ambition must, sooner or later, marry someone for the difference.
Lumière had been doing so for the better part of a century, and with a bride's practised composure. Where the land gave out—and in Lumière the land was forever giving out, shrugging its wharves into the sea as though ashamed of them—the councils arranged what the tide would not provide: an alliance here, a settlement there, a good name wed to a good harbour, and both, it was generally agreed, the better for it. The city took money in as it took the sea in, through locks and gates and a great deal of careful engineering, and it let very little of either back out again.
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The one where Verso is Mr Darcy, Gustave is Elizabeth Bennet, and Jane Austen probably has some questions for me.Bookmarked by Meadhbh
21 Sep 2026
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One quiet winter afternoon, a strangely-dressed man with an aureole over his head falls out of the sky.
Or: Verso thought that it would all end after he expelled Maelle from the Canvas and put the Soul Fragment to rest. Fate seems to have other ideas. Finding himself somewhere else entirely, he has to deal with the unbearable chains of life weighing on him once more.
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06 Sep 2026