18 Bookmarks by Alberniko
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Andrew isn't a renowed author. Sure, he has his fans here and there, a few hardcore readers, but he's not famous or internationally known.
So, when he stumbles across his own book in a place where it absolutely shouldn't be and in a language it absolutely wasn't translated to, he makes it his personal mission to find the person behind it.
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21 Sep 2024
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“Have you considered the possibility that Neil has chosen you, but believes you have not chosen him?” Renee says. "Have you ever explicitly told him what you want?”
“Neil knows what I want,” Andrew snaps. This is not Andrew’s fault.
“How do you know?”
Because Neil always knows. He is as fluent in Andrew’s micro-expressions as he is in German and French. He knows which head tilts mean “go on” and which ones mean “shut up.” Without ever asking, he learned what it meant to see Andrew wearing double layers of long sleeves, or taking multiple showers in a day, and learned to hand Andrew the car keys.
That has always been the most terrifying thing about Neil — his patience to wait, watch, listen, learn. The prospect that if Neil were given enough time, there would be no part of Andrew that was just Andrew’s anymore.
“He has to know,” Andrew says.
“Does he?” Renee says. “Have you ever known Neil to assume that he is wanted?”
Five times Neil tells someone that he and Andrew aren’t dating, and one time Andrew uses his words to set the record straight.
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01 Jun 2024
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It's Just You and Me, Just Us, and Y(our) Friend Kevin by Justthislazy
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
12 May 2023
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Kevin and Neil grow close in the aftermath of Riko's death. It absolutely does not bother Andrew.
It doesn't.
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01 Jul 2023
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Public Bookmark 162
Mystery Work
Part of Private Works
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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06 Oct 2022
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Kevin joins the New York Leviathans. Luckily for him, Neil and Andrew have a spare room he can stay in.
Or: Kevin has always been a little bit in love with his friends. It's about time he finds out.
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- Part 1 of tell the world i'm coming home
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Bookmarked by Alberniko
28 Sep 2021
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An AU where Mary never got Nathaniel out. Instead, he became too invaluable of an asset to be killed off or 'gifted' to Tetsuji. Instead, he's raised with Ichirou and Jean as a part of Ichirou's inner circle.
He'd always had a knack for languages and lying and all the 'messy stuff' came easily enough when your father is called the Butcher of Baltimore. So Nathaniel became the Wraith. He was untraceable, unknowable, infalliable; a criminal fairytale.
When Kevin Day leaves the Nest, there's no better person to send.
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"Who the hell are you?" Andrew demanded.
He wasn't anyone, not really; not anymore. He hadn't really been anyone in years now. There'd been a time. Once. But there were entire lifetimes between who he could have been and what he'd become. He could taste it sometimes; blackberries and sand stinging his tongue like the iron branded on his shoulder.
It was easier to pretend he'd never been anyone at all.
"I'm nothing," he answered. The ghost of a smile pulled at his lips; sharp and cruel. "A wraith." The Wraith, he didn't say, but the shadows ran through Andrew's eyes and he wondered if Andrew had heard it anyways.
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- Part 1 of Innominate
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Bookmarked by Alberniko
03 Sep 2021
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Neil is a hooker in Las Vegas and struggles to make ends meet. So when an opportunity arises to earn easy money by just sitting in someone's lap, he can't not take it. Even if his new John seems anything but harmless.
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- Part 2 of Vegas AU
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15 Aug 2021
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When his brother gets engaged, Aaron doesn't expect it to send his head spinning as much as it does. Marriage has always felt like a dream, or a nightmare, one he never thought either of them would be able to achieve.
In that moment, Aaron remembers what he's always known, what keeps his head above water. He wants to be with Katelyn forever. That's never been a question. But marriage hadn't been brought up. For so long it was this abstract concept, a fantasy. He'd always reasoned with himself that it would happen, rationally of course it would, but now...
Now Andrew has made the idea a reality, and Aaron has to confront his own wants for his future.
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- Part 9 of progress comes in small steps
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26 May 2021
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Silent as the Graves that Haunt this Mountain by Drag0nst0rm
Fandoms: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
24 Nov 2020
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Ten things the Minster of War won't tell you.
(Or: the royal family is not quite a soap opera, but it's not for lack of trying on some of the members' parts. Hector really wishes they would stop.)
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29 Nov 2020
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And in the morning, all would be the same as it ever was: Maia would knot his hair low and move about the house with eyes cast downwards, cringing and shuddering under his guardian’s bootheel for the rest of his mortal days. And the thought came to him, as cool and clear as a message dropped from the stars by holy Cstheio herself: If I stay here, I will never be a man.
And with that new thought in mind, Maia bowed silently to his cousin, left the study without a backwards glance, and went to his room to pack.
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22 Nov 2020
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but I will hold as long as you like by roachpatrol
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
03 Mar 2016
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“Is he frightened of me?” she asks abruptly, impolitely, when the secretary finds her still in the courtyard, lopping the blooms off of rosebushes with her sword.
Bookmarked by Alberniko
18 Nov 2020
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Mystery Work
Part of Old fics
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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02 Sep 2020
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stifle my choice and the air in my lungs by CamsthiSky
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
27 Mar 2020
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in which neil gets hurt, has a panic attack, and matt and katelyn become some sort of strange tag team
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Bookmarked by Alberniko
13 May 2020
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Deep down, Andrew knew he would always reach this crossroads, a time where the thought became too strong to ignore.
Going all the way with Neil. It's not something he can continue to avoid thinking about. When Andrew looks back to the days where he held Neil's hands down, when he never got off with him in the same room, he's forced to acknowledge how much he's allowed.
Not allowed. Welcomed. Wanted.
But that’s not all there is to it, and the desire to make a decision finally makes itself known.
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- Part 5 of progress comes in small steps
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running within these concrete walls by orphan_account
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
03 Jun 2018
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The man got up from the bed, stretching leisurely and revealing the same blaringly orange jumpsuit, tied at the waist so only the ‘Minyard’ part of his name label was on show.
“Let’s start with some ground rules then, shall we? We’re not friends. You want to speak to someone, find some other idiot to babble your sob stories to. You don’t touch my stuff; I don’t touch yours. And try to stick to your side of the room.”
“Want to draw a line down the middle so I know where not to cross? Maybe we can each piss in one side of the toilet bowl?”
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A Prison AU where Neil makes his first friend, and him & Andrew go from being Enemies to Reluctant Conspirators to Lovers.
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04 Apr 2020
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can i get a kiss (can you make it last forever) by Talls
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
26 Mar 2020
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“I’m obsessive about everything,” Neil protests, sitting in a booth with the four upperclassmen he can stand. “What makes this obsession special?”
“Okay, we get the Exy obsession, because you’re legitimately planning on going pro, and we get the Kevin obsession because he’s dedicated to teaching you to go pro, and we even get the Minyard obsession,” Dan says.
“Shh,” Neil pleads desperately, hoping beyond hope that nobody heard that.
“But the podcast has nothing to do with Exy! It’s half about music, and you don’t even like music that much,” Dan says. “It’s literally just music and a really weird guy talking about his homicidal impulses, and it sorta sounds like a joke, but on a much more real level it sounds like it’s absolutely not a joke and I would call the authorities if this guy gave any personal details at all,” Dan says.
“It’s mostly a joke,” Neil offers, but it sounds weak to his own ears.
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In which Andrew has a podcast, and Neil falls in love with him twice.
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- Part 4 of aftg au oneshots
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Bookmarked by Alberniko
27 Mar 2020
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They said the war would be over by Christmas, but two years later Andrew is still in the trenches. Disillusioned and weary, he meets civilian doctor Neil Josten—a man with even more secrets than Andrew himself.
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16 Mar 2020
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honey don't feed me (i will come back) by Talls
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
30 Sep 2019
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There’s a new god in the pantheon; Andrew remembers hearing about the scandal a while back, the newest Demeter having a child with the current Zeus and then going on the run, child in tow. They call him Persephone, the god of springtime and new life, the antithesis of Andrew's realm. It would be ludicrous of Persephone to ever interact with Andrew at all.
If only someone told Persephone that.
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“Hades, right?” Persephone asks.
“Andrew,” Andrew responds, and Persephone hums.
“Nice to meet you, Andrew. I’m Neil,” Neil responds. Andrew cuts a look sideways to see Neil watching him, something assessing in his gaze. Andrew nods in response. “I have to say, you’re not nearly as scary as everyone says you are,” Neil continues.
“You barely know me. Give it time,” Andrew says, because the rumors don’t exaggerate. People fear him for good reason.
“I’d like to, I think,” Neil says. Andrew quirks an eyebrow at him. “Know you,” Neil clarifies. Before Andrew can think of a response, Neil’s head turns. “I have to go. Zeus called for me, and he’ll notice if I’m missing. Thanks for the cigarette.”
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Bookmarked by Alberniko
18 Nov 2019