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  1. Rec 47

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    The King is gone. Derek knows this. The King is gone and Derek is here and the life they have built is real and good and full of plants with Latin labels and forty-seven thousand subscribers and butterfly pasta on Wednesday nights.

    The fault lines are also real.

    It starts on a Monday with a book that mentions stars. By Friday Derek has spent a week navigating cracks in the wall between what he knows and what humans are supposed to know, and he is exhausted, and he has said none of this out loud, and Avery has noticed all of it and said nothing and simply stayed close in the particular Avery way of staying close that does not announce itself and does not demand anything and is somehow the most useful thing in the world.
    On Friday afternoon Derek says: I think I need to talk to someone professional about this.

    Avery says: I know a really good therapist.
    Derek says: of course you do.
    Avery says: I looked her up three weeks ago. Just in case.

    That is, somehow, the most romantic thing anyone has ever said to Derek Hutchins.

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    01 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 61

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    The first video they film together goes like this:
    Avery forgets his intro four times because Derek keeps looking at him like that. Derek is completely, infuriatingly, unflappably calm in the way of someone who has stared into the face of eldritch horror and found a Minecraft camera comparatively manageable. They argue about biscuits on camera. Derek says this is nice in a tone of mild surprise and four seconds of footage gets clipped forty thousand times.

    Avery wakes up the next morning to a subscriber count that has done something vertical. Derek is already reading the comments. He is being smug about this. He is calling it pleased. These are the same thing.

    (a fic about filming, the mark on the wall, grain direction, and the particular joy of introducing someone you love to forty-seven thousand strangers who were always going to love them too.)

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    01 Jun 2026

  3. Rec 86

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    Three weeks into their shared Minecraft world, Derek builds Avery a library.
    It has a pitched roof and reading nooks and lanterns placed at exactly the right height and a sign above the fireplace that says for Avery, so we have somewhere to put things we want to keep.

    Avery tries to tell Derek it's beautiful. Derek says it's just a Minecraft building. Avery says it's beautiful again. Derek says the farm was already finished so he had time. Avery says it's beautiful a third time and waits.
    Derek says thank you. It comes out right this time.

    Later Avery falls asleep against Derek's chest on the couch and Derek pulls the redistributed blanket over both of them and thinks about the sign and decides that this, the lamp, the apartment, the ordinary Thursday night weight of someone he loves asleep against him, is also something he wants to keep.

    (a fic about grain direction, reading nooks, and learning to let good things be said about you.)

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    01 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 93

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    The list had nine things on it. They come home with twenty-six.

    Derek's first grocery run since the hospital goes like this: the lights are too bright and the store is too loud and there are twelve varieties of bread and his brain quietly goes offline in front of all of them. Avery notices in approximately four seconds and steers them to the crisp aisle without making it a thing.

    They spend forty minutes in the supermarket. Derek's shoulders come down from his ears somewhere around the hobnob debate. They name a succulent after the King in Yellow.

    On the bus home, Derek asks if they are friends. Avery has several feelings about this.

    (or: the one where they finally, finally sort out what they are. it takes a classification, a label, and one very specific data point. also a plant.)

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    01 Jun 2026

  5. Rec *

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    What's in your inventory?

    The last thing D3rLord3 ever said to AveryTheMayo in that world was a question. A distraction. A way to push him somewhere safe before the door closed.

    Derek Hutchins wakes up at 3am and cannot convince himself he is real. He presses his hand to his own chest and counts his heartbeat and it doesn't help, and then Avery is there, sitting on the kitchen floor, asking him about chip flavors like it's the most natural thing in the world.
    It helps. Avery helps. Derek is slowly, reluctantly, gratefully learning to let him.

    The next morning Derek tries to make breakfast and sets off the smoke alarm. The eggs are perfect. The toast is a casualty. Everything is fine.
    (first time Avery realizes how deep it goes. first time Derek realizes he doesn't have to hold it alone.)

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    01 Jun 2026