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    If Mikey had grown up next to anyone but his brother, who had FAGGOT emblazoned on his neck starting at age nine, his soulmarks would have been the talk of Belleville, New Jersey.

    Instead, it was Gerard who got the endless attention of schoolyard bullies and concerned, overbearing parents. Of course, Gerard himself didn’t do anything to help matters, because Mikey’s older sibling had decided from an early age to be as much of a nuisance to normal society as possible. Which was a confusing but ultimately just fine thing to Mikey, who preferred to stay as quiet and un-noticeable as possible. Being nothing and nobody is easy for him: he blocks the rest of the world through thick, perpetually smudged glasses and folds his gangly limbs in tight on miserable school bus rides.

    (In Chicago, Pete Wentz has had the words nothing and nobody cut into his ribs for as long as he can remember. He worries for his soulmate, because that’s the kind of person he is.)

    or, a character study slash summer of like retelling in which it's 2005, no one has showered in weeks, it's too hot for black clothes, and somehow the biggest problem is still boys who like boys

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    29 Aug 2025