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    A beginner's guide to playing hopscotch, overcoming internalized homophobia, and falling in love with your alien best friend.

    Disclaimer: results may take up to three (3) years to appear.

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    24 Apr 2025

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    Upon returning home from her first voyage at sea, Inej stumbles across a moment between Jesper and Wylan that challenges her broken view of intimacy that has burdened her heart for so long.

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    28 Jan 2025

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    Neil Josten hated hospitals.

    When he was on the run with his mom, they would hide out in warehouses or sketchy motel rooms and stitch themselves back together with a needle and a bottle of whiskey. He didn't trust hospitals; they were far too open and public for his taste, doctors made it worse with their too-many nosy questions. It was the last thing Neil needed.

    But when Neil wakes up in a hospital with no recollection of how he got there and no memory of the past two years of his life, Neil hated it a little bit more.

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    08 Oct 2024

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    “You’ll probably never meet them,” his mother said one day at a diner in Texas. It caught him off guard.

    “What?”

    “You’ll probably never meet them,” she repeated, nodding in the direction of the lilac bruise splashed across his forearm. “Your soulmate. You’ll most likely never live that long.”

    “I know,” he said, and hoped that she believed him.

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    In which bruises and scars from your soulmate appear on your skin, and both Neil and Andrew paint each other like a canvas.

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    28 Apr 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 58

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    Tim feels a bit of schadenfreude at the whole thing. He’d feel a lot more schadenfreude if he wasn’t the unlucky bastard on the other end of the chain. Why hadn’t he just gone home? Then the cuffs could’ve snapped shut on both of Jon’s wrists, and Tim would have returned to find him tied up and penitent and thoroughly incapable of skulking around like a creep until Tim damn well felt like letting him out.

    After a scuffle over a mysterious package in the Archives, Jon and Tim end up locked together in a pair of handcuffs that don’t seem interested in letting them out. Surely this will end well.

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    10 Sep 2023

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    In which Andrew is very concerned about his swamp, Neil is a prince with a secret, and Kevin is a talking donkey

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    In which two lonely souls realize that they are not quite as monstrous as they previously believed, and Kevin is a talking donkey

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    15 Jun 2023

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    Then a man walks past him, he looks at him, and a swooping sensation in his gut says yes. It isn’t the vampire part of him. He’s just… really pretty. Really Martin’s type. Short and small, neat and well put together, tired and professional, with perfect posture and a quick, impatient stride. He looks like he works in an office. He looks about a decade older than Martin. He looks important, and dignified, and hot. In that very particular way that Martin’s always been into. 

    Not that… not that attractiveness should have anything to do with picking a meal. Oh, it sounds bad to call people meals. Victims? Even worse. 

    Martin should in fact not pick this man, specifically because of how attracted he is to him. It would be the responsible thing to do. 

    Except he’s already following him. And he’s hungry. 

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    21 Feb 2023

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    Jon grinds his teeth. That’s it. That’s all. He grinds his teeth, and he clenches his jaw, and sometimes, when he calls Tim into his office to ask him something, he’ll prop an elbow against his desk and lean to the side and dig his fingers into one of his temples and rub little circles there. Slowly, like he doesn’t even realize he’s doing it, and with a faint crease between his eyebrows. Tim’s libido, finally back to its pre-escitalopram levels, apparently finds this very interesting. Something about all that wound-up tension, maybe. Or the fact that, if Tim were a braver and stupider man, he could lean across Jon’s desk, cup his face, pull him forward, just a bit, and then gently, gently, work all that stress out of him with his tongue. Leave him with his eyes half-shut, lips parted, and watch as he sank down in that stupid high-backed chair all boneless and soft, breathing evenly for what’s probably the first time in weeks. Relaxed. Maybe up for getting blown.

    Jon's mouth hurts, and Tim can't keep his shut.

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    03 Dec 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    BEST TIM POV FIC IN EXISTENCE

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    Ryan: This week on Buzzfeed Unsolved we look at the mysterious life and death of Gerard Keay.

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    08 Nov 2022

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    The worm woman's name turns out to be Jane Prentiss. She's 22, a gemini, and she's studying Earth Sciences because UCL doesn't offer an entomology degree. She wears a mood ring and claims to be a practicing witch. Annabelle isn't sure if she's joking or not.

    She also doesn't use makeup, and her face is pockmarked liberally with what Annabelle recognizes to be very bad cystic acne scars. Annabelle, who deliberately styles her hair to hide the sizable bald patch on the side of her head from an unfortunate cooking oil accident when she was a child, can sympathize.

    Jane Prentiss is an incredibly bizarre woman. She is also, without a doubt, the most interesting person Annabelle has ever met.

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    09 May 2021

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    "I have pills," Jon blurts out, and it's such a bizarre non-sequitur that Martin worries he really has lost it, for a minute. Martin stares at Jon uncomprehendingly as he continues, "That is, medication. For anxiety. If it would help."

    Martin continues to stare for a moment, and then surprises himself by breaking out into a high, hysterical-sounding laugh. "You know what. Fine. Let's do drugs at work. Why not!" His voice sounds strange to his own ears, creaking and cracking like that one time he had laryngitis.

    Jon rubs his temple, looking like he's already regretting the offer. "Oh, for god's- it's ativan, Martin, not cocaine."

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    A series of inebriated conversations.

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    20 Apr 2021

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    Tim is beginning to realize that research at the Institute is a very different beast from research at the publishing house. For one, there’s the content of the research. For two, there’s the actual research materials. And for three—

    “Come on, Tim.” Jon waves to him from halfway up the fence he’s currently scaling. “If I’m going to break my neck today, it had better be for a good reason.”

    For three, there’s the research methods.

    Tim gets paired with Jon for his first big research assignment. Things don't go that great.

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    25 Mar 2021

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    “But he’s going to be in our flat!" says Martin. "He’ll see my room! What if he doesn’t like it?”
    “Bring him to my room?” suggests Tim.
    “One of these days, Timothy Stoker, I am going to break our lease.”

     

    Martin is nervous before a big date with Jon. Tim tries to help. Really.

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    11 Mar 2021

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    It's been ten years since Adam's first big hit. He wouldn't mind so much if it didn't remind him of why he wrote the song in the first place.

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    08 Mar 2021

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    It’s been six months now since Jon died, and Martin knows that if he doesn’t start warming it his heart is going to freeze over again. So, sex. It’s a good idea, he reminds himself. Intimate but not necessarily emotional, a practice for closeness. Something he never did with Jon, so there won’t be any memories there. Just sort of...an exercise in vulnerability. Keeping all the equipment in order, making sure nothing rots away. So that someday, when he can even imagine being in love again, he’ll be able to.

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    08 Mar 2021

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    There’s a man dripping blood onto the floor of the lobby of Martin’s hotel. This is concerning. Even more concerning, possibly, is that he seems not to want to acknowledge the fact that he’s bleeding. He’s trying to book a room. 

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    30 Jan 2021

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    EXCELLENT FIC

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    There are two bedrooms in the safehouse, and two beds.

    For a moment, Jon considers asking to share, but decides against it with a wince. “I really loved you,” Martin had told him. Loved. Past tense. And Martin doesn’t exactly have a lot of choices right now in terms of company; it would be cruel to demand he play at feelings he no longer has just to make Jon happy.

    (For a moment, Martin considers asking to share. But he dismisses the idea with a shake of his head. Jon has already done so much for him. Martin isn’t about to ask for more, especially not when it’s something he doesn’t really need. He has his right mind back, and he has Jon’s friendship. That should be enough for him. It’ll have to be.)

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    Jon thinks that Martin doesn’t love him. Martin thinks that Jon doesn’t love him. They do not, of course, discuss this. Unrequited love is already awkward enough, right? No need to dwell on it.

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    14 Jan 2021

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    Whatever force granted his escape, Martin knew one thing: he was determined never to be alone again. The key is in the flesh, he decided. People weren’t meant to be separated by skin. If two people were made one, all the misunderstandings, all the petty jealousies and deceits, would go away. They could finally be whole.

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    30 Jul 2020

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    “You didn’t like the sex, did you?”

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    03 Jul 2020

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    The sight of you behind the wheel of Kavinsky’s Mitsubishi is doing complicated things to Ronan.

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    30 May 2020

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