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   The Treehouse by JamySmith

   Fandoms: Original Work  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   19 Oct 2023

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Original Male Character/Original Male Character
   • Past Original Male Character/Original Female Character
   • Ambiguously Romantic Friendship
   • Childhood Friends to ???
   • Partially Sighted Character
   • Disabled Character
   • Implied Autistic Protagonist
   • Overstimulation
   • (the unsexy kind)
   • Misophonia
   • Self Harm
   • (mostly discussion and all offscreen)
   • (aftermath shown)
   • Suicide
   • (unrelated)
   • Parental Death
   • orphaning (mostly offscreen)
   • Child Abuse
   • (physical and verbal but not sexual)
   • (also offscreen and only aftermath shown)
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
   • Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Dealing With Trauma
   • (the characters and the author)
   • traumatic backstories (mostly offscreen)
   • Referenced Bullying
   • state care (offscreen)
   • Depression
   • dissociation/depersonalisation
   • References to Panic Attacks
   • references to claustrophobia
   • references to nyctophobia/fear of the dark
   • Dissociation
   • Homophobia
   • look it’s not as dark as the tags suggest
   • nothing bad actually happens and there’s a happy ending
   • well other than all the bad stuff that happens and only a happy ending if you count hopeful as happy
   • but I swear things are getting better for everyone
   • set in New Zealand
   • featuring Fun NZ Facts
   • NZ Information Hour
   • visit New Zealand!
   • (although actually maybe don’t)
   • (since tourism is damaging to our fragile environmental ecosystems and the climate)
   • (nothing personal)
   • protagonist showers too often
   • author did no medical research
   • the author did no legal research
   • the author doesn’t even have internet and it shows
   • definitely not a true story
   • the author is not projecting
   • the author does know what it’s like to have bad eyesight though
   • light to moderate alcohol consumption
   • Divorce
   • confusion about sexualities as children
   • confusion about sexualities as thirty year olds
   • look shut up the author is still figuring it out too
   • set in Aotearoa to be accurate

   Summary

   When an email comes in from his childhood best friend, Simon can't help but jump at the chance to reconnect. But Joel is digging up the past, a past that Simon has been trying desperately to leave behind. Together, they must face the truth, but does their bond run deep enough to keep each other from breaking?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   22,827

   Chapters:

   3/3

   Comments:

   2

   Kudos:

   5

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   09 Jun 2025