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    “Keep telling yourself that,” Will says quietly, because even though the door is closed, speaking any louder would seem wrong. “You’re too harsh on yourself. If you wrote songs or something, you’d easily get on the Billboard Hot 100. Dad would help you. I would, too.”

    “Promote it to your seven followers?”

    “Yes!”

    Nico laughs, and then Will is joining him, and they’re closer than before, but it’s nothing unusual. It’s been this way since before stupid feelings and stupid crushes, and Nico would be damned if he let it change just because of that.

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    a celebrity au ft. childhood friends to lovers, a bit of trauma, and a famous friend group (plus leo).

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    08 Jan 2024

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    Tim is good at galas.

    No, scratch that—Tim is great at galas. He’s been attending them ever since the age of three, when his parents first stuffed him into his little Gymboree tuxedo and gave him a stern lecture about ‘sitting quietly’ and ‘speaking when spoken to.’ He knows all the rules: what to wear, how to stand, when to smile, what to say, what not to say. He knows how to come across as polite and intelligent and charming, and on absolutely any other day, he would be rocking this.

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    Or, my take on a ‘Tim Joins the Family Early’ AU, told through a series of sleepovers, most of which are unplanned.

    Featuring pre-teen Tim, Alive!Jason, and a whole lot of hurt/comfort.

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    04 Dec 2022

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    Musician Dorian Storm needs to get away from the media circus and the pressure of his manager father after announcing his decision to go solo. He finds respite in the quiet mountain town of Zephrah and inspiration for his new music and perhaps even something more in local widower Orym and his daughter. The quirky residents of the town hatch matchmaking schemes, cliche holiday romance movie tropes abound - will these two be able to find their happily ever after under the mistletoe?

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    04 Dec 2022

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    After Thoreau finds out about Beau's relationship with Tori, she gets sent to a reform school run by monks with nothing but a bag of clothes and her father's threats about what will happen if she returns with the same attitude wringing in her ear. What was meant to be a punishment, however, turns out to be a blessing in disguise as Beau finds a group of rag-tag "troubled teens" like herself that she can call her friends, learns how to deal with her anger with the help of a new mentor and maybe, just maybe, falls in love again...

    TW for: lots of cursing, alcohol and drug abuse, homophobia, self destructive behaviour (references to suicide and self-injury), canon character death, the worst father in the universe, mild violence and maybe some spicier moments

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    "There’s an after-school program that I think would do you some good. Like a club, sort of. You could meet some people like Nott.” Mr. Sol’s smile was wide and seemed genuine. “You seemed to get along well with him.”
    “Oh.” Caleb wanted to protest, but he couldn’t. He didn’t need to meet people. He’d had people before, and it had done very little good. He was fine alone.
    “I’ll give your parents a call and let them know, okay?”
    “Ja. Okay.”
    Mr. Sol called the people Caleb was staying with and told them about Zadash High’s “Behavioral Correction Program”. And Caleb left.

    It had only been a month since he’d left rehab and come to this school, and he was already being recommended for a troubled kid's group. So, overall, he was off to a shining start."

    In which Caleb has a lot of trauma to work through, the Mighty Nein is A Lot To Handle (tm), and Caleb's parents are lowkey my favorite characters.

    The first work in a shamelessly self indulgent, stupidly elaborate High School AU. Basically, the Mighty Nein are shoved into an after school program together. Slow burn bonding, angst, and probably cuddling to follow.
    Title from Noah Kahan's song "Please".

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    04 Nov 2022