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After years of feeling different, of feeling alone, of feeling like a failure, Jesper finally has a reason. It came in the form of a medical diagnosis, confirming what teachers had whispered about him for years. Now, all he had to do was ask the University for the help he needed. Simple enough, right?
Wylan splits his time evenly between his chemistry degree and his work at Ketterdam University's Disablity Support Office. The job doesn't pay much, and sometimes the work is mind-numbingly dull, but he gets to give people the help they need and deserve. The help he'd always wanted growing up.
Title from 'Matilda' by Harry Styles
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To Captain Kaz ‘Dirtyhands’ Brekker, his first mate The Wraith and his sharp-shooter Jesper Fahey, their ship was the closest thing they had to a home. It was fondly named ‘The Barrel’ thanks to it’s ragged state when they first stole it (the joke being that it managed to keep them afloat, and not much more). The trio and their loyal, rugged crew traversed the southern realms of the True Sea, picking off trade ships and slavers as they went.
Kaz Brekker wants more, his sights set on bigger prizes and enough wealth to own (and burn) an entire fleet of ships. Inej simply wants Kaz, her family, and some semblance of a home that doesn’t need to float. Jesper has no idea what he wants, until they capture a Kerch Merchant ship, and he meets a boy just as lost as he is.
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13 Jul 2026
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start 7/11
fin 7/12everything is so perfect
some of the stuff in this fic could be the actual plot of a Leigh bardugo SOC novella -
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Jesper was halfway through a plate of shrimp when he realised the wedding he’d crashed was actually a funeral. Well, a wake, he supposed. Oblivious as he was, it took three different middle aged women dabbing at their eyes and sniffling while wearing all black for him to clock that perhaps, just maybe, the party he’d slipped into wasn’t a cheery affair. He froze, one shrimp in his hand suspended halfway to his mouth, a fancy porcelain plate piled precariously with food and balanced in his other. Who the hell held a wake at the Geldrenner?
OR: Jesper accidentally crashes Jan Van Eck's funeral and meets Wylan, the now insanely rich heir intent on destroying his father's legacy (and company).
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Bookmarked by crimsEM
12 Jul 2026
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started 7/11/26
fin 7/11/26 at 11:58 pmhad the cheesiest smile on my face this entire fic
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Wylan couldn't read. He couldn't write. He could draw, and play the flute, and create chemical reactions that would blow holes in the strongest walls. He could see the dead, where their souls still lingered, clinging on to the world of the living. It was another defect, another madness his father had despaired of, had tried to force out of him.
The Crows all have their ghosts, though their forms change and grow and exist in different ways. This is how Wylan sees them.
(Or: I don't care that there's a heatwave, I want it to be Halloween already)
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11 Jul 2026
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started 7/11/26
fin 7/11/26also read at the beach
beautiful writing, a wonderful one shot -
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Wylan had been okay for a while now. He was okay at his job at the coffee shop, he was an okay housemate who remembered to feed the cat and do the dishes, and he was okay occasionally sleeping with Kuwei, even if they drove each other mad. But once the overwhelming fear and anxiety of leaving his father's house had faded, he found that he was just... okay. And he was definitely starting to want more.
Jesper was an expert at wanting more. More fun, more chaos, more, more, more. While his friends would never tell him to settle down (and probably thought that he never would), he knew they worried about him. After all, they'd all ended up in happy, loving relationships. He'd ended up in a stranger's bed every weekend.
A chance encounter at a coffee shop on a rainy day. Some shameless flirting and numbers exchanged. Maybe, just maybe, Wylan would get the more he was looking for, and Jesper would finally get peace.
Bookmarked by crimsEM
11 Jul 2026
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started 7/10/26
fin 7/11/26like actually one of the best things I’ve read ever hopeisbloody can have like anything they want from me. everyone is written perfectly and ugh like I don’t have the words. read this in basically one sitting on the beach perfect atmosphere for this lil treat