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Joel Miller is a responsible, loving father to his college aged daughter, Sarah. He also has a contracting corporation to run, and he does it well. But the single empty-nester life isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. What happens when Joel unintentionally puts himself out there?
A visit to the Royale Room on jazz night changes Joel’s life forever. He thinks he’s got it figured out until the universe throws everything else it could think of at him. For him, secrets are the least of his worries.
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26 Jun 2026
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hold·ing pat·tern
- the flight path maintained by an aircraft awaiting permission to land.
- a state or period of no progress or change.You move back to your childhood home in Florida to care for your ailing mother, only to find the past waiting for you in every room. Your always kind older cousin Santiago refuses to let you disappear into the sadness, pulling you into his world without hesitation. But Santi's world involves Frankie Morales; your cousin's best friend and the boy who broke your heart decades earlier. Thrust into each other’s orbit again old memories make their way to the surface, blurring the line between hatred and desire. Because the boy you learned to despise is the man you can't seem to forget.
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25 May 2026
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"I just don’t want this to ruin our friendship, and this is the kind of thing that can ruin friendships."
"That won’t happen. I swear to you. You know how much I care about you."
For seven years, you've been one of the guys. Friday nights at the local bar were always reserved for catching up with the friends you considered brothers, except for the one you secretly harbor feelings for. But one emotionally charged night (combined with too many shots) leads you to end up in Santiago's bed, changing everything.
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22 May 2026
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taste back by Kodachromereader
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jun 2026
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You thought he was the love of your life; Joel took you for granted. Three years after a painful and dramatic divorce, you and Joel are forced to face each other at a mutual friend's destination wedding in Maui. But you’ve moved on; you even have a new man. Besides, it’s only for a weekend. You can be cordial for that long, can't you?
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21 May 2026
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02 Nov 2025
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Adore promises scientifically perfect matches. You just wanted to try it for fun. You didn’t expect a 98% compatibility score with Harry Castillo, a powerful NYC financier nearly twenty years older, with sharp suits, sharp eyes, and an even sharper tongue.
One disastrous first date ends with wine down his expensive suit. You’re certain that’s the end of it.
Until Adore calls to say he wants a second date.
Now you’re stuck navigating mandatory matchmaker sessions, forced dates, and a man who drives you mad, even as he slowly, infuriatingly, starts to get under your skin.
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07 Oct 2025
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Healed by WhoCaresStillTheLouvre
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Jun 2026
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After Joel's suffering at the hands of Abby, he survives. You, once a doctor, and now a new resident of Jackson, are tasked with healing him, bringing him back to life in more ways than one.
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09 Jul 2025
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Texas Tornado by pocketfullofkouhuns
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Jul 2025
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First chapter can be read as a standalone, but there is more to the story.
No-outbreak au where Joel is a single dad to college-age Sarah and 6-year-old Ellie. He was your high school sweetheart, but things fell apart when you left for med school. Years later, you reconnected by chance on one of many bouts of work-related travel, falling into a FWB situation that’s slowly been eating you both alive. Tons of pining, angst, and it's not a slow burn in the typical sense of the word--half of these 11k words are absolute smut--but it's been a slow burn all the same.
(tldr; Your local connoisseur of unconventional slow burns is back on her bullshit.)
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08 Jul 2025
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Best friends. Always there, never quite enough.
He broke your heart without ever knowing he held it—until everything fell apart, and the only person he wanted was the one he pushed away.Bookmarked by KungFuCapsLock
06 Jul 2025
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Joel is your rock, and Frankie is your ocean. So what happens when you bring the three of you together?
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you and Frankie roadtrip up from Southern California to Northern California so he can meet Joel. A polyamory fic. This series exists in the Triple Frontier universe and is a Joel Miller AU/Triple Frontier AU.
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01 Jul 2025
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While on vacation with his friends, you can’t resist the temptation to test Frankie’s limits.
Written for the PPCU Smut Writing Challenge hosted by @mushgloomz on Tumblr.
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15 Jun 2025
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Elks by WhoCaresStillTheLouvre
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
14 Apr 2025
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Life in Jackson is quite comfortable and simple for you. You love teaching your students and running your library, you love the comforts of living here, perfectly complacent with the company of your two cats, guitar, tattered CD book, and a few friends. You like comfortable and simple, though the feelings you feel whenever you see Joel Miller are quite the opposite. Once you meet him, it seems like he needs you in his life as much as you need him.
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17 Apr 2025
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Lonely, widowed, Joel seeks company where he knows he shouldn't.
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26 Mar 2025
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The Savage and the Sanctuary by JustAGalWhoWrites
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Apr 2026
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After the death of his daughter, Joel Miller fell apart. But when searching for answers at the bottom of a bottle and within his own rage doesn't fix it, he resigns himself to working for his brother in private security. It's a job that starts him down the path to stability and a semblance of a life, even if it's not one he particularly wants. At least it does until you show up.
The biggest movie star in the world with your newly adopted niece in tow, you throw everything about Joel's life into flux. Is he capable of letting himself feel something again while protecting the only things left in the world that matter?
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20 Feb 2025
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Rec 51
Mystery Work
Part of Misc
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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02 Dec 2024
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You and Frankie Morales have been best friends since the 6th grade. You swore to each other that there would never come a day where life would be better without the other one in it. But as you grow up, you've learned the hard way that sometimes, just friendship isn't enough.
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- Part 1 of All The Things We Never Said
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13 Nov 2024
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When his brother's new relationship brings an unexpected reunion into Joel Miller's life, he takes the chance to explore it in more ways than one.
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30 Sep 2024
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You and Frankie Morales are friends. Just friends and nothing more. But after a bad breakup and a worse Tinder date you find yourself on Frankie's doorstep one Saturday night all thanks to an Uber mixup, in a bodycon dress and fuck-me heels.
Turns out, Frankie is more than willing to oblige.
After all, what are friends for?
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23 Sep 2024
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As Tommy's best friend since forever, you've known Joel almost your whole life.
In the beginning, you never paid him any attention. Busy working since he could, you barely saw him. The couple times you did see him at parties, it was only as Tommy’s ride, or showing up when Tommy got in trouble with his mouth. Like he never had any patience for parties or stuff like that; an aged man since forever. Even at their house, Joel had been…around, but he never stuck around for long. Always drifting away to go hang out in the garage, or in his room.
It was during high school when you started looking at him differently. Started paying attention to him in a way you never did before. Starting noticing things like he never had a girl around – or at least one that stuck, though you knew he knew his way around them, because you saw him in town sometimes.
Walking out of a liquor store with a brown bag, a girl sitting in the passenger seat of his truck.
Pulling open the door of the bar, his hand on the small of another girl’s back.
You wanted to be those girls so bad it burned.
Maybe tonight, you can be.
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31 Aug 2024
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Guilty Pleasure by for_a_longlongtime
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), Pedro Pascal - Fandom
06 Sep 2024
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You're home from college for the summer, staying with your parents in Austin, TX. So is your dad's best friend, Joel Miller.
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- Part 1 of Guilty Pleasure
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30 Aug 2024