ratherthanday
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There are no words for this disappointment, and so, you cannot speak in human tongues.
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You never felt such creeping disgust even when drenched head-to-toe, depths of your soul, in eldritch clutches.
How do you tell your friends you want to leave, want to be completely spatially alone? You don’t—can’t—love them?
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Universes apart, Jade Harley and Dirk Strider share strikingly similar trials of youth.
Alternatively: A character study of the two, separately, in a series of vignettes.
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"She clings tighter at night when she thinks you’re asleep.
You don’t fully understand what she’s feeling, but on most days it does well to just get by. And get by, you do."
Rose elucidates her feelings regarding her long-term girlfriend.
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John lets himself in and climbs the stairs to the second-floor studio, where the piano lives, flicking on the lights as he goes. It’s well after most classes and dance companies have retired for the evening, and he usually has this place all alone. It’s a little lonely… but it’s better than nothing.
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AKA: John Egbert is a pianist, and Dirk Strider is the principle male dancer of a ballet company. After both getting out of long-term relationships, John and Dirk meet. -
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When Dirk's bathroom is flooding, he turns to Grindr to find someone nearby who might have a screwdriver he can borrow. John has been playing around on Grindr without really confronting his sexuality. As Dirk renovates his falling-down house and John builds a life for himself outside of his failed marriage, fate keeps throwing them together.
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26 Apr 2025
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After 16 years apart living their adult lives, John moves back into town, where he runs into Dirk, and finally gets the chance to share something that's been on his mind.
Title from "Bloom" by Mae.
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26 Apr 2025
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Dirk and John know each other through Dave and decide to fake being married so that they can rig the room lottery and share with someone they've been assured is cool. There's only one bed and shenanigans ensue. Written in the form of an r/relationships post.
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26 Apr 2025
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Dirk Strider is dating his brother's best friend. And if he doesn't know that yet....
Well! What he doesn't know can't hurt him.Bookmarked by ratherthanday
26 Apr 2025