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Much Better Than You Know by better_off
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
26 Jun 2026
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For his part, Jotaro is a man possessed. It’s all he can do to keep his hands to himself when they’re seated close together on a crowded train. But Kakyoin is a different story. Jotaro can sense a strange distance in the other boy, even when they’re tangled in each other’s limbs. Jotaro can’t predict when Kakyoin will fall into his arms laughing and when he’ll settle into the hotel bed mutely, without so much as acknowledging Jotaro.
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In which Kakyoin's encounter with Dio left him cagey and distant, and it's driving Jotaro crazy in ways he can't express. Fortunately, Jotaro has a few ideas of how to close the distance. Porn with feelings.
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"Something Aloth has learned about himself in his 60 years is that he is not...good with feelings. Not that he doesn’t have them, of course, but he finds the whole business of describing them so painfully subjective."
How do you bear a past that follows you everywhere? Aloth has managed by not looking too close, but he's getting tired.
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Aloth is an anxious wizard, Edér is a restless veteran, and, on the watcher's turbulent trek, an unlikely companionship is formed.
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The Bonny Bunch of Roses by halsinator
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
01 Oct 2015
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In which Maria Absalom revisits Segundus's dreams and strikes up a bit of something. Well, more than a bit of something. Meanwhile, cakes are consumed, cows are displaced, and Segundus masters the art of magical gardening. Also: Childermass.
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27 Jun 2026
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Let the Good Times Roll by nevermordor
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
17 Nov 2015
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A bad storm leaves the boys stranded and bored at their hotel, with only a deck of cards for entertainment. In a burst of inspiration, Polnareff suggests strip poker. It’s all downhill from there.
Or: the one where Polnareff ineffectively tries to seduce Avdol, Joseph is a shameless cheat, Kakyoin is just straight up shameless, and Jotaro fails to deal with his feelings.
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11 Jun 2026
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"I love you," Harry says on June 25, 51, halfway through a game of cribbage. Cuno has done nothing more notable than tell a joke that made Harry laugh.
Cuno doesn't know what to say. Nobody loves Cuno. Loving Cuno should probably be an interisolary crime. "Gross," he says.
An exploration of those Cuno has lost, those he's gained, and those he can't let go.
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08 Aug 2024
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A dead woman in an alley, a girl with a thousand faces, a fiancé with blood on his hands, a wealthy family with an agenda, and the two detectives who would solve the case at any cost.
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16 Sep 2022
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Aloth's mother sits behind him, her hands in his hair, and for once in his life, there is no risk of future hurt. She speaks to him in a calm, lilting voice – of vast and varied histories long passed, of infinite futures to come, of magical theorems that connect their souls through it all. It makes him almost drowsy – and he trained himself out of sleeping too deeply long ago, lest his slumber be interrupted by unwanted attention, but a part of him wonders if he could simply… rest here, and not worry about where he will awaken.
… and then, he notices the peasant woman. She looks ordinary, forgettable in her rumpled clothes and hunched posture. On any other occasion, he wouldn’t pay her a second glance – but his vision ripples, and the image solidifies until he can identify long, stringy hair and shadowed eyes. There’s only one possible explanation for that.