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Neil Minyard-Josten’s professional exy career ends without ceremony when he blows out his ACL beyond repair at age 27. Forced to reevaluate the trajectory of his life, he indulges in his real passion: causing significant problems for everyone in his life through the field of sports journalism, this time on the other side of the microphone. God help his publicist.
Or: Five Times Neil Minyard-Josten Caused An Incident On National Television, Plus One Time It Was Actually Mostly Fine
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Neil runs because it's everything to him, but he also runs because there isn't anything else for him to do. Turns out, freedom and living are foreign concepts to him. Running and survival? Not so much.
He went back to creature comforts, the only ones he'd ever known. What else was he supposed to do? What else was he meant to yearn for? Can't want something you never knew existed, after all.
Enter Andrew Minyard.
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25 Apr 2026
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soooo in character might be my fave au
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Laurent is an inmate. Damen is a prison guard.
Welcome to Arles.
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02 Mar 2026
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unironically a very fun read considering its setting
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Damen and Laurent break up. Nicaise brings them back together.
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26 Feb 2026
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filled with uncomfortable conversations that WILL make u squirm, almost equivalent to a character study for a character that doesnt exist? but nonetheless a very human outlook on the complexity of all types of relationships. nicaise was excellent
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According to the team, Andrew is currently losing a custody battle for Neil against a sport invented by the mafia.
It’s a running joke in the locker room: Neil cares about Exy, and then, distant second, he cares about breathing. Andrew is somewhere on the list, probably below the new backliner spread Kevin found.
Andrew doesn't bother correcting them. He knows the difference between a distraction and a destination. He knows Neil runs until his lungs burn to keep the ghosts quiet, but he also knows exactly whose bed Neil crawls into when the adrenaline fades.
(Or: 5 times the team thought Neil loved the sport more than the goalkeeper, and one time Neil made the hierarchy terrifyingly clear.)
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30 Jan 2026
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Probably the best 5+1 fic I’ve read the way everything just spilled over in the +1 was very elegantly done