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“Hi,” Frank says, breathless. His hair is messy, like he’d tried to ruffle it with his fingers to make it more presentable, and his shirt is askew, the neckline obviously tugged to one side.
“Hello,” Mel responds primly, behind the hulking printing press. She moves to the side of it and tangles her hands together in front of her apron.
The pair of them are sort of comical — her in full colonial garb and him in a free t-shirt from the campus gym that he clearly cut the sleeves off of, turning it into a makeshift muscle tank, with only a thin cord strung across a few wooden posts separating them.
or: the colonial williamsburg college au meetcute
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16 Apr 2026
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Mel ends her Shift From Hell on the roof.
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28 Mar 2026
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"So are you a Survivor superfan?" He asks—be normal Frank, be normal—walking toward some rocks at the far end of the beach.
"Huge," Mel says with a wide smile. "What about you?"
"Me, not really," Frank admits. "I watched a few seasons here and there," —one season, if he's honest— "and I auditioned just for fun," —he hadn't even known that Theo had sent in that stupid video— "and now here I am."
"Here you are," Mel echoes and Frank finds himself a little lost in the melody of her voice. It's lower than maybe he would expect, but the flow of it is an easy rhythm, a pleasing melody.
Entrancing.
"Here we are." Finds it necessary to add on, and the smile that blooms on Mel's face tells him he's said the right thing.
Fuck.
Or, the Survivor AU.
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10 Feb 2026
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A comprehensive scientific framework for the human experience of love has been sought after by social psychologists for decades.
This piece will recount the experience of one person (a heterosexual, well-educated, white female in her late twenties) through the lens of Tobore’s AAC Quadruple Framework Theory of Love.
Looking for a housemate to move into my 2br 2ba apartment in South Side Flats. 1110 sq ft, modern, clean, north-facing. Shared areas fully furnished, but willing to consolidate. In-unit washer/dryer. $1000 per month, excluding utilities.
Strong preference for someone in healthcare or other industry with day/night shift rotations. Available from July 27. Current lease runs until December, with option for renewal.
Send EOI to [email protected]
“Oh, do you know someone who’s interested?”
“Yeah,” he grinned. “Me.”
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24 Jan 2026
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Frank types for a moment and then hands the phone back to her, leaning in close to press a kiss to her cheek. “See you later.”
He reaches around to press the elevator call button for her, and then turns before she can say anything else.
Right at the top of the Google doc, Frank has added:
MOST IMPORTANT RULE: This will not ruin our friendship.
OR — Mel volunteers to help a coworker, which means, somehow, Frank volunteers to have a ton of sex with Mel.
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21 Jan 2026
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He told her once that she was the only editor who didn’t try to wring the wild out of him. She liked that. She would have told him to reuse the phrase in a column if she wasn’t selfish enough to keep it for herself.
Langdon is the star columnist of popular wilderness adventure magazine The Backpacker. Mel is the editor who helps him stay that way.
When Langdon starts blowing through deadlines and stops answering calls, Mel decides the best course of action is to meet him where he's at.
aka Kingdon go to the Cascades
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04 Jun 2025
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The car pooling, she thought, represented this blurring of boundaries: not quite work but not quite personal life, either. If somebody asked her if she ever saw Langdon outside of the hospital, what should she say?
Mel and Langdon car pool to work.
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27 Mar 2025
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Edwin Payne crawls out of Hell twice. Somehow, his problems begin in the aftermath.
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22 Apr 2024
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Sydney thinks that if she found out she was pregnant a little earlier she probably wouldn’t have gone through with it. Like, if she found out before her landlord changed the locks on her apartment, or before the bank sent her all those red letters, or before the pasta dried up, she’d probably have just taken herself to Planned Parenthood, popped the pills and charged it to the game. But as it is, the two blue lines appear on the stick during the worst months of her life, the first months of the pandemic when she’s unemployed and shit scared that her dad is going to get coronavirus and die. And when she sees them, she just thinks: well, this might as well happen. She was a disappointment before. What’s one more thing?
Before she meets Carmy, Sydney has a baby.
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- Part 1 of child with a child pretending
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16 Jan 2024
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at least we were electrified by likearecord for loveroulettes
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
02 Feb 2022
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Child actor made good and America's boy-next-door meets professional Exy's favorite love-to-hate-him bad boy. His reputation has never been worse.
Merry Mixtape to loveroulettes, whose song was so perfectly Andrew & Neil. I hope you enjoy!
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31 Aug 2022
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Andrew and the Idiotic, Thirsty, Ill-advised, Very Off-Limits Crush on his College Roommate's Younger Brother.
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29 Aug 2022
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Kim Namjoon is in love, and Jung Hoseok is always dating someone else. This is perfectly fine, even preferable, because the universe likes to tell jokes and Namjoon knows it's best just to laugh along. He's certainly got nothing to complain about when it comes to the building blocks of his life, and dating is a lot of effort. Too much effort, really. So it's obviously fine.
But the universe's latest attempt at a comedy sketch, where Hoseok moves in with him, bringing the sun and a lot of tiny shorts, might actually make him insane.
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26 Jan 2020
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such stuff as dreams are made on by vxmins for tendershipping
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
18 Jan 2019
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"sir no one, may i have this dance?"
or: kim taehyung, a kitchen boy, sneaks into a royal masquerade. park jimin is the prince he never expected.
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25 Jul 2019
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“hey, hyung,” jungkook says in a tiny voice into his ear, “how are you? it’s been a minute.”
“it has, hasn’t it.” it’s been two years, which is not hard to believe, because holy fuck— “you got, um. tall.”
that’s not really it. jungkook was already taller than yoongi two years ago. and it’s not a drastic change by any means. it’s just that everything about him is… more. yoongi refuses to think of other words for it.
(or: yoongi comes back to summer camp and finds himself in something of a crisis.)
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- Part 8 of for u.
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07 Jan 2019
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Jeon Jeongguk is a master of unreality, a person who doesn't fit anywhere and doesn't much care. Art drives him, violence engulfs him, and there's nothing he likes more than being invulnerable and alone. Until he meets Kim Taehyung, a fellow student hell-bent on being his friend, and he starts to wonder if there's something besides hate to carry inside of him. But the road from friendship to love is long and hazy, even more so when he doesn't know what he really wants, and for a sharp-edged mess like Jeongguk, sweet Taehyung may be the one person he can't ever bear to lose.
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- Part 3 of Bangtan Is Bad At Feelings
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17 Dec 2018
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There is magic in the world, but for years Jungkook has shied away from his gift. (It's intrusive, unwelcome, dangerous.) Now, he's in New York City, battling loneliness and a college course he hates. Until on one particularly bad day, he turns down a side street in East Village and his life changes forever.
(Or: six boys run a magical emporium together and Jeon Jungkook is looking for a place to belong.)
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- Part 1 of to build a home
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25 Nov 2018
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Kim Taehyung has been head-over-heels, ridiculously, disastrously in love with Jeon Jungkook for three and a half years.
Now, if only he could actually tell Jungkook that.
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25 Nov 2018
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A stranger argues with him over cat ratings on his own damn blog, and Yoongi wasn't expecting it to be the start of a friendship, but here they are.
(Or: Namjoon, Hoseok, and Yoongi run a travel blog, Yoongi's been running for three years, and Jungkook is lonely in Seoul.)
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22 Oct 2018
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Yoongi and Jungkook meet on an airplane, finding a connection in overheard beats and soft melodies. When the flight lands, Yoongi doesn't even get Jungkook's number. Can they find their way back to each other?
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22 Jul 2018