Queer Coming of Age
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Amber the Vampire Slayer by Red Cowling she they (Redtheseer), Redtheseer
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Angel: the Series
11 Jun 2026
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In a world still mourning Buffy Summers’ death, 16-year-old Amber awakens as the new Slayer—but something’s wrong. The Slayer line should run through Faith and the seed of wonder, not Buffy who destroyed her line, and this impossible calling brings the unhinged vampire Drusilla right to Sunnydale’s freshly rebuilt streets.
Amber isn’t here for the legacy bullshit.
Daughter of a US psyops specialist rented across Europe and a retired drone-operator father. She already knows ledgers.
Living alone in a barren apartment, selling foot pics to make rent, she’s determined to forge her own path while keeping punchy one-liners and her giant frog plushie close at hand. The last thing she needs is Spike and Angel lurking on rooftops, or Drusilla’s growing body count.
When Chrissy catches her attention on her first day at the new Sunnydale High, Amber finds herself with something she never expected: a girlfriend who refuses to let her face the darkness alone. As Amber struggles to protect a town with “too perfect hills” and an dead Hellmouth, she’ll discover that carving out her own destiny might require accepting help—and that living up to Buffy’s legacy doesn’t mean becoming her.
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Love songs. They used to come easily, like second nature. Mio used used to write them all the time, when she could be a dreamer, when she could lose herself in fantasies of romance and the perfect relationship, when she didn’t have a boyfriend. Now she does, and she's quiet. Because what does she know about love, really?
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- Part 1 of Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
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Every song has a B-side.
A slow-burn told twice. Once from the girl trying to name her feelings. Once from the girl trying not to feel them. A companion to Truth of Touch.
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Jersey Dirt by bleedingfrommypen
Fandoms: My Chemical Romance, I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love - My Chemical Romance (Album), Tokio Hotel (Band), Pencey Prep (Band), Fall Out Boy, patrick stump - Fandom
09 Jun 2026
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Boy meets boy. Boy can't figure what he is. Nobody’s sure, and that’s half the fun—at least for Frank.
Girl meets boy—and bolts. Patrick thinks all she’s gotta do is try.
Everyone’s young.
Everyone’s lying.
Nobody wants to be the one to fuck it all up.
It's messy
It's fun!
It’s Jersey.
"Friends don’t wash each other’s hair, in the shower"
“It was dye.” -
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In 2006, scent is law—and Bella Swan no longer masks hers.
After Edward Cullen leaves, she spirals. But what lies dormant doesn’t stay buried. Every human carries the blood of Wares—Alpha, Beta, or Omega. When a near-assault cracks her scent wide open, Bella becomes a target.
Rosalie Hale arrives—not to save her, but to claim the wreckage left behind.
But Bella isn’t broken. Not yet.And not everyone who walks away from the supernatural world gets to walk away clean.
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Before the romance, there were the echoes.
In the quiet corners of classrooms, beneath library lights, and along the sun-soaked sidewalks of Koreatown, Sarah and Yuna’s bond was already taking shape—long before they had the words to name it.
After the Spotlight: Minisodes is a companion collection of short, heartfelt glimpses into Sarah and Yuna’s shared past—from middle school memories to adolescent yearnings—charting the subtle, deeply queer beginnings of a love that would one day bloom again.
These slice-of-life vignettes explore longing, emotional intimacy, and the fragile beauty of first connections.
✦ Companion to the main story: After the Spotlight
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- 4/25
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The Light That Burned Me by HerIsMe
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Avatar (Cameron Movies)
29 Oct 2025
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In 2025, Charlotte Angel Broussard sits across from a journalist, recounting a story older than America itself. Born in 1765 New Orleans—a city humming with music, secrets, and spirits—Charlotte was once just a cinnamon-skinned girl with dreams of love, dressed in lace and innocence. But everything changed the day she met Katrielle: a wealthy, enigmatic French girl with sunlit eyes and a shadowed past. Charlotte didn’t know it then, but Katrielle was no ordinary girl—she was something ancient. Eternal. A vampire bound by blood and secrecy.
As the interview unfolds, the lines blur between past and present, love and loss, girlhood and damnation. Charlotte speaks of desire, discovery, and the hunger that awakened in her after their meeting—a hunger that would consume everything she knew, including the girl who gave it to her.
Now centuries old and immortal, Charlotte is a creature of the night haunted not by her curse, but by memory. And as the truth unravels, the journalist begins to realize that Charlotte’s story is more than history… it’s a warning.
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- Part 1 of Blood & Lace
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Blue Bonnet Summer by orphan_account
Fandoms: This Song - Conan Gray (Song), Vodka Cranberry - Conan Gray (Song), This Song - Conan Gray (Music Video), Heather - Conan Gray (Song), Wishbone - Conan Gray (Album), Caramel - Conan Gray (Music Video), Wish You Were Sober - Conan Gray (Song)
23 Oct 2025
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After leaving off on bad terms and not speaking for almost a year, Wilson finally comes back to his hometown, Fulville, Texas, to see his best friend, Brando. After all, it is just one summer, how much can really happen? Too much. The tensions are high, will their feelings be confessed once again, or will their relationship be ruined forever? Can Brando get past his own struggles for WIlson, or will the task be to great for him to handle? How will it end? Travel your way through stolen kisses, secret romance, queer identity, and so much more drama. Will their love prove true or was it doomed from the beginning?
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...або історія майже невинного шкільного редфлегу.
Насправді у нас не закрився тур фесту на шкільну тематику, але мене вже було не зупинити.
Цю пісню знають всі.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw9S_p2eR5QВ спортзалі тихо — не бігають діти,
На стінах шарики і на столах квіти,
І не насварять за помаду вчителі,
Сьогодні можна, сьогодні — випускний!
Останній раз одягнеш форму і поплачеш,
Останній вальс танцює зі сльозами строгий завуч,
Тільки раз в каптьорці ти покуриш з фізруком
І перший раз до ранку не повернешся додому...(с)Ааааа тепер уявімо, що це все про хлопця, починаючи з помади.
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Though he may live a privileged life for a boy in Hawkins, Indiana, life isn't easy for Evan Cunningham. As the younger brother of Chrissy Cunningham, Evan is largely overlooked by his parents and peers. He spends most of his childhood watching from the sidelines, alone with his intrusive thoughts. He carries a secret that he feels no one will accept or understand, so he buries his personality deep inside.
However, Evan's life is turned upside down when unimaginable horror strikes his sister. He comes into contact with the cast of favorite characters, including Will Byers. Through his relationship with Will, Evan begins to open himself up to the possibility of connection, acceptance, and love.
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Mike Wheeler writes the column, Sex and the City. When an article about his "spiritual experience" at a gay bar gains traction, he begins to explore a side of the city, and himself, he's never experienced before.
OR SATC au because that SNL skit inspired me to do it but make it Byler
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“Sunscreen,” Will said, pulling the bottle Joyce had given him – it felt like months ago, but it had only been a little over a week.
Mike let Will dot the cream on his cheekbones and the tip of his nose. His eyes were fixed on Will, dark and heavy. Will swallowed nervously, not sure what to make of Mike today. One second, he was bouncing off walls, the next he was strangely still and staring. Will wasn’t entirely opposed: it gave him an excuse to stare back. To admire the sharp lines of Mike’s face, his freckles that had only darkened with sun exposure, the flush of old sunburn on the crests of his cheeks and collarbones.
After the party defeated Vecna, Will was invited to join El and Max in Portland. Mike convinces him that one last best friend road trip is a great idea - even if Mike will have to face the long trip home alone.
Including: very 80s mixtapes for each state, staring longingly, gay repression, queer coming of age and El being a queer ally.
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Most people who could travel through time would use it to fix something.
Arlo just got lonelier.
With nothing left to lose he turns to the only person who already knows everything about him. The conversation that follows is one week long, more honest than anything he's ever said out loud, and the beginning of something he's been running from his whole life.