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Mike doesn't know when he started caring why Steve and Eddie are friends now, but Dustin has made him curious. Eddie and Steve were enemies before, sort of. So why are they now best friends? They've just got to do a bit of surveillance to work this puzzle out. If Mike accidentally finds out he has feelings for his best friend along the way then... well, shit.
“At least I’m not using binoculars.” Mike shoots a derisive look over at Dustin. “Like we’re not in the middle of the high street, if they spot us how are you going to explain away those, huh?”
“Bird watching,” says Dustin. “My new hobby.”
Lucas punches him on the arm. “God you’re so fucking stupid.”
“You gave them to me!”
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- Part 1 of now whip it (into shape)
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- 6,151
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02 Aug 2025
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In a land of myth, and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young boy.
His name...Merlin.
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A complete rewrite of BBC’s Merlin
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- 50/50
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Bookmarked by carrot09
25 Jul 2025
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On the hunt for treasures large and small, Neil and his Foxes stumble across something far more extraordinary. Adventure ensues, paths are carved, and the sea takes as much as it gives.
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Scars littered his body, travelling up and down his hands and forearms. He looked as if he’d been carved from the sea’s rough depths and spat out in a maelstrom.
Andrew wanted to choke him.
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Bookmarked by carrot09
28 Apr 2025
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Neil Josten was born with violence in his blood and raised as a weapon to hide in plain sight.
And then he finds himself surrounded by foxes and his usual survival tactics ruined by a five foot goalie. The whole mobster mafia problem isn’t helping either.
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Cue a Neil who cares a little less, a past raven, and potentially a little something more to live for.
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- 12/12
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Bookmarked by carrot09
28 Apr 2025
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[COMPLETED WORK]
“Who even are you?” Neil blinked at him with those perfect, blue eyes.
Andrew became very aware of Neil’s weight at that moment and dropped him. Neil bounced back on the bed and yelped.
“I’m the guy who is going to go take a shower and you’re the guy who is going to wait patiently for Kevin to come tend to your needs,” Andrew said. He gestured down to Neil’s blanket covered body. “Whatever this is, is above my pay grade.”
[AFTG Crime AU that takes place in Baltimore where the Foxes and Raven's are opposing gangs. Neil escapes the Nest and falls for Andrew, but Riko will do anything to get him back. Kevin and Aaron tumble headlong into a secret relationship and Jeremy Knox fixes a very broken Jean Moreau.]
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- Part 1 of the glass series
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- 40/40
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28 Apr 2025
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19 Apr 2025
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The world was a cruel, twisted thing but there were always three truths. The sun would always return, he was Abram (son of the wicked and son of the would-be righteous), and death would always be there to welcome him when he was tired of being a pain in the ass.
Death would not come to him now; he was having too much fun. Every time Riko and his knives tried to break him, Nathaniel became sharper. Soon he would break Riko.AFTG Re-Telling beginning with Mary and Nathaniel being caught by The Butcher of Baltimore and Nathaniel taking his place in the Ravens lineup.
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19 Apr 2025
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If it means protecting you (I’ll pay my dues) by Intangibel (duskbutterfly)
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
29 Apr 2023
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What if the threat of Aaron being charged with murder was more significant and Neil found out that he could prevent Andrew from having to be at the trial if he were to testify. What would he be willing to sacrifice to achieve that?
What if instead of refusing to testify for Aaron, Neil decides to make a deal with the FBI to become their witness against his father if they’ll backstop his current identity? What if he could take Riko down with him? He thinks it means signing his death warrant and losing the Foxes. Betsy, Aaron and the Foxes are determined to convince him it doesn’t have to be all or nothing, but his father’s people are coming for him, he’s poked the Moriyama hornets’ nest on Kevin’s behalf and that’s not even starting on what Andrew will have to say about Neil choosing to martyr himself.
Ft. Unlikely bonding between Aaron and Neil. Nicky and Aaron realise Andrew does care and is a protective asshole they should care about, therapy Neil needs but wouldn’t ever seem out and shake-ups to canon focus on healing and redemption for Andrew.
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The rape tag is for canon/past Drake only. Discussed and referenced but never described on page- Language:
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Bookmarked by carrot09
19 Apr 2025
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Wymack grunted. “Hey, why don’t I call in takeout from Sweeties and we can eat it in the office? I have a sixteen year old boy in the back of the patrol car right now that I’m running to the station.”
Andrew scoffed quietly to himself and set the phone on speaker to light his cigarette. Muffled, he said, “He better be eye candy if I’m coming to that dump.”
Andrew inhaled deep and closed his eyes for a moment before blowing the smoke out through his teeth. On the other end of the phone, just as he was bringing the cigarette back for another drag, he heard Wymack say, “Hey, my son wants to know if you’re cute.”
Andrew coughed up his lung at that surprise, but he didn’t miss the way that a distant voice piped up with “I want to say yes, sir.”
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Andrew and Aaron lived under two loose rules after Andrew’s stint in juvie: No more lying, no more secrets. Andrew already had years old secrets to take to the grave, but upon meeting a boy with a fiery attitude and a penchant against staying out of trouble, he quickly realized that he wasn’t the only one.
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Bookmarked by carrot09
19 Apr 2025
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It's as simple as this: people like Andrew, destructive and joyless, don't get a happy ending.
If only Neil Josten had stayed a dream.
(The King's Men by Nora Sakavic but from Andrew's point of view instead of Neil's --using the novel and Nora's extra tumblr content to try and be as accurate (hopefully) as possible)
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Bookmarked by carrot09
19 Apr 2025
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Andrew Minyard didn’t have a reason for surviving the wasteland until Kevin Day came looking for protection. And now Neil Josten is making appearances across the city. This mysterious newcomer, running from his past and towards the people who murdered his mother. He’s spent the last 200 years cryogenically frozen, and this new world—for all its ghouls, and monsters, and hardships—offers the first real freedom he’s ever known. As Neil searches for answers, he latches onto to both the possibility Kevin keeps dangling in front of him and the protection Andrew is offering. But neither of these is going to help him escape his past. And he’s running out of places to hide.
(Updates every other Wednesday)
--Kevin was less cryptic. “Why do you have this?”
“None of your business,” Neil spat.
“Uh-uh-uh,” Andrew tutted, raising a knife to Neil’s throat. “Try again.”
“None of your fucking business,” Neil corrected, deciding that if he was going to die in the wasteland, a knife to the throat wasn’t a bad way to go.
Andrew smiled something manic, and blasted a fist into Neil’s injured side. “You’re a lot funnier when you’re writhing in pain,” he decided.
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19 Apr 2025
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08 Jan 2025
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Home is a Prayer in the Dark by blackberrybrambleOrion
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
01 Aug 2024
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“You have to go.” Nathaniel’s voice left no room for argument, but Jean was still pulling himself back into his body.
“Go?” He croaked. Nate started throwing clothes at Jean as he spoke. He debated packing them a bag, but it would take too much time.
“I have Riko’s keys and can pick the front lock.” he said “Everyone is either asleep or distracted with ERC bullshit. There will never be another time and if you do not leave, Riko will kill Kevin, then you, and then me. I will not let that happen. You and Kevin are leaving.”
Jean’s breathing sped up as Nate shoved a sweatshirt over his bare chest “Nate what’s going on?”
Nathaniel's face twisted in anguish. There was no easy way to break the news. Nate gripped Jean’s hand in an attempt to keep the shaking within his own at bay. “Riko broke Kevin’s hand. Shattered it. He’s never going to play again. You have to get him out. You both have to get out.”OR
Just another Raven!Neil AU but my personal take on it.Bookmarked by carrot09
07 Jan 2025
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This House Says My Name Like an Elegy by mcmeasle
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
19 Dec 2025
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Neil was fucked. Plain and simple. He’d known that getting Kevin out was a big risk that would have a nuclear fallout afterwards but sitting on his bed with Jean, listening through the wall at the punishment Riko was receiving from Tesuji in the next room, he realized that he might not have been fully prepared for what was coming his way next.
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Raven!Neil fic kicking off from the night Kevin escapesSeries
- Part 1 of But We're Still Here
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06 Jan 2025
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After Kevin publicly announces his intention to play for the Foxes, Riko sends Nathaniel Wesninski to convince him to return to the Nest. Unfortunately for Riko, Nathaniel has other plans.
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- Part 1 of Unmaking of Monsters
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05 Jan 2025
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Next to Kevin sat a man who was roughly Neil-shaped, but that was where the similarities ended. Neil was dark hair, colored contacts, and a skittish demeanor. Neil was hidden smiles and questions and questions, so many goddamn questions, and—
No, this wasn’t Neil. This man was a collage of bandages and bruises, hair bathed in flame. This man was a slack jaw and blue eyes, blue like ice, like an ocean, like drowning, too much like freedom for Andrew’s comfort.
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Or, The King's Men from Andrew's POV
(TW's at the beginning of chapters)
Updates sporadicallySeries
- Part 1 of In Orbit
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03 Jan 2025
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Put Me Back In It ( Darlin' I’d Do It Again ) by httphimbo
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
21 Jul 2026
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It’s not fair. It’s all Neil can think, childish and foolish and true. It’s not fair. It’s not fair. It never has been. The tickets weigh as much as a coffin lid, as the lie that is Neil Josten. Kevin’s hand is still on top of his and his fingers tremble. Neil stares. It’s his left hand, a solid reminder of the bastion of cruelty these tickets are going to lead him to.
“I’m sorry.” Kevin whispers.
Neil barks a bitter laugh that ravages his throat and tucks the tickets into his pocket. “Yeah, me too.”Or:
Nathaniel Wesninski dies in a basement in Baltimore. Neil Josten wakes up on the bleachers in Millport. One of them still has to get Jean out of the Nest.SEQUEL TO YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN KID (YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN)
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- Part 2 of both arms cradle you now
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03 Jan 2025
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The Difference Between The Floor And The Walls (And other things that will never change) by 11KBby11
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Jan 2026
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Aizawa doesn’t look happy. Lord, he doesn’t look happy at all. Any evidence of fatigue and façade has been swiped from his face completely—Replaced by a pin-pricked annoyance; One no doubt caused by Shouto. His jaw is clenched, the muscles move too tightly, and Todoroki can almost swear that he sees a vein pop from his teacher’s forehead.
But, something else is there, too. Something boiling. Something akin to question, akin to suspicion, akin to circumstance. Skepticism licks at the corners of Aizawa’s dry lips, the fingers on top of his arms twitch with a beholden urge. An inquiry is in the cards for Shouto.
First, though—
“Todoroki.” Aizawa’s voice sounds like a knife. Shouto braces for the cut. “Do you want to explain why the right side of my classroom looks like a winter wonderland?”
What?
༻✦༺ ༻✧༺ ༻✦༺
Or;After Endeavor injects him with a quirk enhancing serum, Todoroki must fight his way through the drawbacks—All the while preparing for U.A’s ‘Clash of Heroes’ tournament.
But, when secrets boil over, and shit hits the fan—It’s up to Class 1-A to uncover the truth of Endeavor’s actions.It’s up to Shouto to just keep breathing.
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Bookmarked by carrot09
03 Sep 2024