12 Works by TheRodPod
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“I hate that boy,” William mutters from the open window, every syllable heavy with years of burning resentment for one Jeremy Everard Fitzgerald.
Michael sighs. The sound slips out soft, almost dreamy, despite himself.
“I know, Father.”
OR: During the hottest summer of his life - and the last one before that big graduation day - Michael Afton finds himself in the middle of his most chaotic break yet: family drama, asshole best friends, and maybe even a little bit of romance. Sure, falling in love over the summer sounds cheesy as fuck, but maybe that’s exactly the point.
After all, Jeremy’s never not made a summer break worth his while.
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- Part 2 of The Summer of ‘87 ☀️
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“How dull.” She sighs, resting her chin on pale knuckles. “In all these millennia, Men remain the same.”
Her gaze pins him in place - vast, unblinking, golden. Seifer feels smaller than he ever has before, even when failing his SeeD exam time and time again: a mere Man among mortals, kneeling before something Eternal.
He cannot shake the feeling that he has disappointed her, somehow.
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- Part 1 of Mortals & Fools
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When some no-name pizzeria burns to the ground when she’s twenty-six, she can’t explain the tug in her chest. A year later, she takes a job with the company that owns it, morbidly curious. By twenty-eight, she’s the sole security guard of the Pizzaplex.
This place… it feels wrong. Yet, oddly familiar. Uncanny in a way she can’t pin down, like déjà vu that won’t fade. She scoffs at herself - “stupid” - and tries to forget about it.
Her security badge reads: Vanessa A.
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Blurb(s) from the ‘87 verse.
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- Part 3 of The Summer of ‘87 ☀️
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Exploring the past of Fredbear’s Family Diner, before the end.
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Chris rolls his eyes, returning to his task with more vigor, a renewed excitement buzzing in his veins. “I dunno. Thought it sounded pretty far away. Maybe we’ll keep it in the country if you’re so against a bit of adventure. Er - uh - Nebraska, or somethin’.”
“Nebraska?” Michael scoffs, amusement coloring the edges. “Really?”
“Yeah,” Chris doubles down. “Nebraska. We’ll get a dog. I always wanted a dog. Abũela and Eva are allergic, you remember that mutt we snuck in? Couldn’t keep him ‘cause he made them sneeze. But if it’s just the two of us, I can get that fucking dog.”
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if our days are numbered (then why do i keep counting?) by TheRodPod
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
07 Sep 2025
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Before there was Jeremy Fitzgerald. There was Chris. It doesn’t change a damn thing.
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Directly connected to The Boys of Summer, serves as a prequel of sorts.
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- Part 1 of The Summer of ‘87 ☀️
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“It isn’t your fault,” William says, low and steady, like a priest giving absolution. “You could have never known.”
The words slice Henry open wider because he knows they’re lies, and worse - because he wants to believe them. He shakes his head, but William’s hand holds him still, thumb brushing against the hinge of his jaw.
It’s deceptively tender.
“She’s gone,” Henry whispers, voice ragged. “She’s just - gone. I can’t - I don’t know how to--”
“Then let me help you.”
Charlie Emily has been dead for two months, and Henry Emily is not coping.
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Michael ran away from home the same year Jeremy became the bite victim. There’s a strange coincidence in that - something cruel, or funny, and fucking tragic, depending on the angle. He hasn’t seen Jeremy since he was thirteen, since that last letter in October, days after the birthday party, where he’d scrawled the words:
Evan is dead. Don’t write again. Don’t come back.
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Wired Rabbits & Other Miscellaneous Trinkets by TheRodPod
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
27 Aug 2025
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Regrets have a funny way of coming back to haunt you. Even when you’re a good man.
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You'll spend eternity with angels and ghosts by TheRodPod
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's
24 Aug 2025
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She is dancing away from you now
She was just a wish
She was just a wish
And her memory is all that is left for you now…Series
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“She’s dead now. They all are. It doesn’t matter.”
Juliet only tilts her head, her curls a halo of fire. “You never liked being alone,” she says, curling in on herself, sliding down the wall, hugging her knees close.
“You didn’t either.”
There lies the truth of it, stated plain. The crux of it all: neither of them could stand being lonely.
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