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  1. Rec 82

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    He felt warmth against his skin as Giorno warily slotted his hand in Mista’s.

    “…Is this okay?”

    When he tilted his head to get a better look at him, Giorno looked tired. Very tired. And when his eyes darted down towards their interlocked hands, Mista had the thought that maybe Giorno needed the contact even more than he did.

    So, he said, “Yeah. It’s okay.”

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    In the aftermath of Vento Aureo, Giorno and Mista try to navigate their new lives and figure out what “home” means to them now, and what they mean to each other.

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    19 Mar 2026

  2. Rec 69

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    Long ago, the Emperor of Rome crucified an oracle out of fear of her prophecies. From her mouth, it was decreed that his eldest, Giorno, was fated to be celebrated by history and loved by all but the one he loved most. Then Donatello, who would inherit his bloodlust and sadism but none of his cunning. After him, Ungalo, so hideous that his wet nurses recoiled from him. And Rikiel, doomed to a mind so fragile that his eyes would droop and he would forget to breathe. A prophecy only spoken in hushed whispers behind closed doors, one that never would have reached you in the cramped insula nestled at the foot of the Aventine Hill where you grew up.

    And then Giorno had seen you in the stands from the Imperial Box of the Colosseum, and you found yourself trapped within it.

    You could learn to love him, you decided once he had made you his wife. You could learn, if the cocky gladiator with the pretty green eyes would stop occupying your every waking thought. You could learn, if the woman he had broken his engagement to would stop staring daggers at you.

    You could learn, if you could manage to survive.

    (Or, “plebeian marries the future Emperor of Rome and instead falls in love with his gladiator bodyguard.”)

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    04 May 2025

  3. Rec 31

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    It was lonely being on top.

    It was an existence Albus was all too familiar with it. His genius forcing him to live above the world as he is beyond other’s understanding. So what happens when a blond boy who has visions of the future and speaks of revolution comes around forcing him back down to earth again?

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    Albus has lived a life of never truly being understood by others, and when he finally meets someone who finally sees him, his path for destruction is set.

    A retelling of the Summer of 1899

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    15 Jun 2025

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    To dance is to know somebody, to love them. Sometimes, to dance is to hate. And Joseph hated nothing more than seeing Caesar dance.

    Joseph earned his role as the lead. He deserved it! So what if Caesar reminds him every day that he doesn’t? It’s not like he cares. He definitely doesn’t care. Definitely not.

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    23 Jul 2025

  5. Rec 6

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    “I say, Speedwagon?”

    “Hmm?”

    “Are we going to fuck?”

    Speedwagon stumbles, and for a moment, it seems like they’re bound for a painful collision with the cobblestones, until Speedwagon hauls on the back of Jonathan’s jumper and manages to steady them both.

    “Jonathan!” he says, sounding utterly scandalized.

    “Speedwagon,” Jonathan says happily. “Robert. Bob. Bobbert. Speedy? Like the mouse from the cartoons! I bet you’d look very pretty in a hat.”

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    21 Jul 2025