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  1. Rec *

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    "Everything about Dave is wonderful, especially when it's not."

    Three years after the game ended, the kids and their guardians live together as a big, goofy family, and John is so happy he could explode. The thing that makes him happiest is Dave. They are the best snugglebros and everything is perfect.

    Except that people are giving John looks like he's missing something important here, and he's not sure he wants to figure it out...

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    16 Feb 2012

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    About as good as it gets in terms of John/Dave that is unrepentantly sweet-natured while at turns snappy and clever and keeping quite firmly in mind just how flawed these boys are, even as they adore each other and have matured a bit since being dingus thirteen-year olds. (Its sequel Amazing Places is also well worth checking out: A portrayal of Dave and John in a by-and-large functional(!!) relationship that actually works because they remain recognizably themselves throughout. See also: Gorgeous scenery by way of Yosemite National Park.)

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    What is immediately apparent to anyone with a passing interest in ghosts or the undead, the grim and grisly, is that Rose Lalonde’s new house is haunted.

    Post-Sburb. Rose and Aradia explore post-game melancholia and the homicidal, subterranean depths of Rose’s house.

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    31 Jan 2012

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    Fun and silly, as well as permeated with everyone's counted losses. Not to mention the pitch-perfect characterization, with Aradia in particular stealing the show. Lovely, lovely prose.

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    In three years alone in the veil, John Egbert gets to know the orange feathery knockoff of his best friend.

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    21 Jan 2012

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    A showcase of the sort of slow and careful relationship progression I enjoy in longer fic. Also goes a ways towards filling those "Davesprite deserves a happy ending" and "John's a sweet kid but needs to learn when he's being a callous jerkbutt for no good reason" holes in my heart. Jade, Nanna, Jaspers and Casey are all present and accounted for in very appreciable ways!

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    He walks like a cat who has tape on his paws, and has had tape on his paws for a very long time, and who never expects to ever again walk without scrunching miserably from side to side in a tangle of self-loathing and confusion. It hurts to look at him, but it hurts more not to.

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    6 Jan 2012

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    Is there more John♦Karkat out there? I can't begin to tell. I think I could subsist on this portrayal alone for a good while, though. Elegant and aching and healing from the top of its head to the tips of its toes, this fic.

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    Your name is Dave Strider and you are 26 years old.

    You have just gotten engaged.

    The problem being that you have just gotten engaged to your best male friend in a furious fit of stupidity, champagne, one-upmanship and a weird warm-glowy feeling that occasionally (or more than occasionally) rolls around in the pit of your stomach and makes you act like a moron. You have, over the past 13 years and much careful experimentation, dubbed this “The Egbert Effect”.

    You would like to state, for the record, that you are definitely, completely and 100% NOT A HOMOSEXUAL.

    As Bro carefully describes to you what, as the DJ, he’s going to play at the reception (almost entirely a medley of Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha), you carefully nurse a Rock Star and vodka like a 16 year old girl who just popped her cherry at prom and try to figure out what the fuck happened over the past decade or so to land you in this mess.

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    4 Jan 2012

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    One of the most excellent of longfics around -- so much that it practically sells itself at this point! Superb characterization, with a careful yet funny yet sensitively rendered portrayal of the slow march that is John and Dave's relationship as they grow up and enter adulthood. Also accomplishes the feat of not forgetting all of their other Most Important Relationships (not even close!); to the point that the story is almost as much about the ensemble cast flexing their muscles in a post-Sburb setting as it is the pairing. In a word: Fantastic.

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