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“When you said we had a problem I thought it would be serious.”
“This is serious!” Jesper says incredulously.
“In what way?”
“Twenty cats showing up at our front door isn’t serious to you?”
The twenty cats in question stare up at them. Wylan and Jesper stare back.
The cat they’d named Inej sits proudly at the front of the group. She meows at them. Every other cat meows in response, turning their front porch into a chorus of caroling felines.
Wylan huffs. “Okay, yeah, this is a serious problem.”
or: how wylan and jesper accidentally adopt a bunch of cats and why they're all named inej (AKA: a darker shore spoilers)
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15 Jul 2026
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Gloria and Leo did not expect everything to be perfect overnight, far from it, so when Peter breaks a glass they are there to reassure him that everything will be alright.
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13 Jul 2026
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Peter hasn't been sleeping and Gloria is worried about him, concerned that he can barely keep his eyes opened. Her and Leo are desperate for an answer, but how do you get an answer without causing Peter to panic?
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13 Jul 2026
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This is another gift by blue_is_very_confused
Fandoms: The Magician's Elephant - Kate DiCamillo
10 Jul 2026
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After having steady meals for long enough, Peter hits a growth spurt. Gloria and Leo are happy to see it. But this also means that Peter’s clothes no longer fit, so Leo takes him on a search and makes some plans.
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- Part 2 of On Becoming a Family
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13 Jul 2026
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“I don’t want you doing drugs,” he says sharply, voice trembling, and he swears he has never meant something more in his entire life.
Natalie just snorts. “Well, that’s persuasive, coming from Pfizer’s Man of the Year.”
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natalie's struggling.
gabe doesn't understand why.
but all he would have to do is take a look in a mirror, and he'd get it.
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note: you don't need to have read part 1 to read this :)
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- Part 2 of he's immortal, forever alive
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14 Jul 2026
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Sometimes, Gabe wishes he were dead.
He hates himself for it. Because he loves living, he truly does; he thrives off of the joys that life provides him, and he knows he’s lucky to get them.
But, God, is the pain unbearable.
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some nights, independence can be unattainable.
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- Part 1 of he's immortal, forever alive
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13 Jul 2026
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The house on Walton Way after the Fire by thislifewelive
Fandoms: Next to Normal - Kitt/Yorkey
11 Jul 2026
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Quick one shot, Gabe lives AU, exploring what happened during the fire at the house on Walton Way.
Diana’s new medication makes her practically narcoleptic. Early in the morning while Dan is gone at work she makes food and leaves the gas stovetop on and goes to sleep.
A tea towel she had tossed nearby catches fire. The old wood panel house goes up in flames quickly with Diana, Nat and Gabe inside.
OR: how Gabe gets his nickname. Superboy 💙
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14 Jul 2026
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Eurydice teased him once that he looked like a baby deer caught in a torchlight. Orpheus had just blushed and returned with a some deeply poetic turn of phrase that she kept locked away in her heart.
His eyes were just as entrancing as his words.
or: eurydice loves orpheus' big stupid doe eyes
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07 Jul 2026
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sing of what’s lost to you by poisonghoull
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
31 Jul 2025
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It wouldn't be impossible. But it's no key from a coin. And if Jesper was anything past numb, he was desperate.
It's been said that the use of merzost has a cost. But when Wylan was lying before him like this, cold as ice, what was Jesper to do?
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07 Jul 2026
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sharpshooter's back, baby! by MaudeAlise
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
16 Nov 2023
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“It was a career-ending injury!” Wylan snaps. “What else is there to say? Are you trying to make fun of me?”
Jesper recoils. “No! Saints, no, Wylan. That’s awful, I would never!”
“You made fun of me for just about everything else.”
“Well, that’s because I didn’t like you very much. I still don’t,” Jesper says bluntly. Wylan’s glare intensifies and Jesper hastens to add on, “But I don’t hate you!”
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Seven years ago, Jesper Fahey was the up-and-coming rising star of the tennis world. The only person really in his way seemed to be the rich and haughty (and maybe, handsome) darling of Kerch tennis, Wylan Van Eck. But that was seven years ago, and after their match in Ravka—everything changed. Now, for the first time, they meet each other again.
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01 Jul 2026
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When Wylan awoke in pain, he thought it was a dream. His head was bleeding. That would explain the wetness in his hair and the spinning of the lights in his blurry vision. His hands were bound, wrists raw from the roughness of the rope knotted around them. There was a wooden chair beneath him and a searing in his ankle and the lights swayed and shifted around a bulky silhouette and he had just about surmised what was possibly happening when a hand struck him hard across the cheek.
“You sleep like a baby.”
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Throwing my hat in the ring of Wylan kidnapping whump in the context of body-as-ship-of-theseus type introspection
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30 Jun 2026
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Gabe has a bad flare up, the only person home is his dad.
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- Part 1 of Alive Gabe fics
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12 Jun 2026
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jenny by OnlyH
Fandoms: Next to Normal - Kitt/Yorkey, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Passenger/Joyce (Musical)
04 Aug 2026
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Gabe Goodman crashed his car into a tree hoping to die; he didn’t. Now, he’s juggling his family’s reaction, the attention of a cute guy that seems like trouble, and his urge to try again.
Based off of the song Jenny by Leisure Hour
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12 Jun 2026
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Stand upright. Chin up. Feet planted strong beneath you. Let the world condense into a line between yourself and your target. Envision in your mind what your heart calls you to do.
The words of Wylan’s tutors echoed in his ears, but they served little help. His heart didn’t want him to do anything but turn and run.
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Wylan Van Eck is supposed to be a hero. That is the legacy he was born into and the expectation he's been raised under. Now he's sixteen and somehow still powerless, certain that he will keep failing to defend himself until at last he cannot outrun death.
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20 Apr 2026
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Meet Wylan Van Eck by Imaginigma
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
24 Mar 2024
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Kaz reveales Wylan´s identity before the Ice Court heist and it goes as expected. As if that wouldn´t be enough to worry about, Prior and Miggson choose that time to finish the job they started. Can Wylan survive this time? And can his friends?
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20 Apr 2026
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Gabe Goodman survives but lives with chronic illness and pain. His near death breaks Diana and she continues to struggle with her mental health. The Goodman family constantly battle to keep each other afloat amid grief, guilt, and fragile hope.
Literally an entire musical rewrite to make Gabe live, but still honor the theme of the musical.
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- Part 2 of Gabe Goodman Lives
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12 Apr 2026
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Till Death Do Us Part by the_lesbian_hedgehog
Fandoms: Next to Normal - Kitt/Yorkey, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Passenger/Joyce (Musical)
15 Mar 2026
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“I’m afraid there’s nothing we can do.”
It was a sentence Gabe had spent his whole life dreading. Still, he had hoped he would at least make it to twenty-one.
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- Part 1 of A Goodfry Tragedy in Two Parts
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16 Mar 2026
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“Do you love living?”
She’s silent a moment too long. He fears he’s pressed too hard, struck at something too deep for their fledgling relationship, that any moment now, everything they’ve built will burn away until Orpheus is left with fading embers and Eurydice walks away with the soot.
Eurydice fidgets with the end of one of her braids, mussed by sleep but still impressively intact. “I love walking in the sun. And the flowers you make bloom. And…” she trails off. “I love how it’s been, these past few days.” His heart twists, more fondness filling his chest than he knows what to do with.
“I’ll turn those past few days into forever,” he promises.
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Or: the scenic route through Act 1, as told by Orpheus.
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10 Mar 2026
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“It’s a little different every time,” Mnemosyne says. “Sometimes you have straight hair, sometimes his is curly. Sometimes you’re angrier, sometimes he’s softer. Sometimes they shake hands, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes she forgives him, sometimes she doesn’t.” She shakes his head. “Even when it ends the same, those little changes—they add up at the end. That’s the nature of stories like yours.”
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Or: Between life and death, Eurydice meets the goddess of memory.
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10 Mar 2026
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Wylan doesn't miss food.
He doesn't miss sleep.
He doesn't even miss his heartbeat.But he misses the sun.
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09 Mar 2026