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After his parents’ breakup, Isak Valtersen retreats into survival mode. He spends most nights on Jonas’s couch, drowns out his thoughts with alcohol and noise, and learns how to be careful with himself in a world that already feels unstable. At home, his mother’s faith grows louder as her mental health deteriorates, and scripture becomes something Isak cannot escape. When she discovers the truth about him, fear and love twist into something damaging, and she sends him away to conversion therapy in the belief that it will “fix” him.
Isak returns to school at the start of year two changed. Quieter. Guarded. Carrying trauma he does not have the words for. He has learned how to disappear, how to flinch away from his own wants, how to survive by staying closed off.
But survival is not the same as living.As the people around him reach out, and as he meets someone who sees him in a way no one ever has before, Isak is faced with questions he is not sure he is ready to answer. Can he accept help without feeling weak. Can he trust love without fear. Can he unlearn everything he was taught to hate about himself.
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10 Feb 2026
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“Hva faen - baby,” Even murmurs, gently pulling at the collar Isak is holding against his nose, “what happened?”
Isak can feel his mouth open and close, resembling a fish more than anything, but his thoughts are running wild and what the fuck they weren’t supposed to be here what the hell was he supposed to do-
“A teacup.”
Shit, he hadn’t actually meant to say that.
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Or the parallel universe where the curtains are the same colour, but the towels are stained with red because Isak’s mom isn’t all that niceSeries
- Part 2 of Red Towels!AU
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04 Jan 2025
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If I Needed Someone *Currently Undergoing Revisions* by yesterdayandtoday
Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)
19 Mar 2025
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A pause falls over the group that is so awkward Knox wishes the tiled floor would swallow him whole. It becomes even more awkward when Chet asks, “So, are you seeing anyone, Knox?” with such a shit-eating and self-satisfied smirk on his face that Knox wants to football tackle him into the aisle shelves.
Seriously, fuck this guy.
Knox felt his face heating up and opened his mouth, but before he could get out so much as a syllable about how lackluster his love life is, he found himself startling as he felt an arm wrap lazily around his shoulders.
“Knoxious, babe, where have you been? I’ve been looking all over for you.” a familiar, uncharacteristically sweet voice says from his left that makes all of the blood rush out of Knox’s face. He felt himself going rigid, not even having to look over to know who had just come waltzing in on their conversation.
Charlie. Fucking Charlie Dalton is trying to pass himself off as Knox’s boyfriend to Chris and her new boyfriend. God, Knox knew he should’ve said no when Charlie begged him to go to the store.
Or: A Fake-Dating AU where Knox finds himself in situations where he has to fake-date his best friend until they fall in love
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- Part 1 of What Is Life
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09 Dec 2024
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In the summer of their sixth year, Remus Lupin tried to kill himself.
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05 Dec 2024
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Prof. H. Slughorn, Summer '77, Group B: "On love potions & extended." by sundime
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Feb 2025
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“I reckon if he corners me and asks me who I fancy one more time I’ll bloody punch him,” Remus says, squinting under the sun.
“Or you’ll boil over and snog his daylights out,” Lily quips.
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As part of Slughorn’s riveting summer extracurricular, Remus follows his idiot friends to the Potters' cottage in Devonshire, where they’ll dig up opalescent clamshells and comb mermaid's hair from rock pools to brew a love potion supposed to make the drinker irresistible.It’s hot, James won’t stop whinging about Lily, Sirius keeps finding squid ink and asking Mary to tattoo him, and recently moon-torn Remus is severely discouraged. Appointed to drink and test their horrific concoction, he manages to give the entire house a crush on him - except, bizarrely, for Sirius, on who the potion seems to have no discernible effect.
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01 Dec 2024