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1. The Overachiever’s Guide to Inflection Points by SaasSaae

   Fandoms: Original Work  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   14 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Vince/Micah
   • Original Characters
   • Trans Male Character
   • will add tags as the story goes on
   • Slow Burn
   • Bickering
   • Mutual Pining
   • Yearning
   • Undiagnosed ADHD
   • Declarations Of Love
   • High School
   • Forced Proximity
   • Nerdiness
   • mentions of calculus
   • complicated family dynamics
   • Vince is stressed 24/7
   • Vince does not know how to handle a pretty boy who is better at math than him
   • no beta we die like men
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Found Family
   • Eye Contact as a Love Language
   • window climbing
   • Class Differences
   • Vietnamese-American Character
   • Family Drama
   • Swimming
   • cursing
   • Flirting
   • Misunderstandings
   • Bilingual Character(s)
   • Identity Crisis
   • Sick Character
   • POV Alternating
   • Idiots in Love
   • Boys in Love
   • Dialogue Heavy
   • Character Study
   • at least I think so
   • Romantic Tension
   • Eventual Romance
   • Underage Smoking
   • Underage Drinking
   • I'm bad with character descriptions
   • Character Death
   • Rivals to Lovers
   • Sexual Tension
   • Academic Rivals to Lovers
   • Angst
   • Academic Rivalry
   • Panic Attacks
   • Everyone is Gay
   • Gay Panic
   • Neither of them knows how to talk about feelings
   • The author loves rambling
   • English Is Not the Author's First Language

   Summary

   For Vince, Filly’s Bay Academy is like a second home. As the swim captain, multi-club president, and known overachiever, he has calculated every second of his high school life to achieve success. He doesn't do distractions.

   But Senior year arrives, and a new obstacle got in the way.

   Restless and chaotic, Micah is a transfer student from Brazil. He carries a powerful surname he despises: Sterling, and a brilliant mind he actively hides just to survive the year unnoticed- that is, until he realizes how much Vince despises when someone outsmarts him.

   Micah loves a good cat-and-mouse game. Vince utterly lacks the patience for it.

   But when a mandatory, ten-month Art project forces them into a partnership, both their carefully built walls begin to crack. Between competitive math class discussions, teasing, and actual fights, their fierce academic rivalry evolve into something both did not expect.

   Extra tags!
   - Academic Rivals to Lovers
   - Slow Burn Romance
   - Trans Protagonist
   - Lesbian moms
   - Teenagers being Dumb

   Series

   • Part 1 of TOGIP Universe

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   47,059

   Chapters:

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