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There’s very little Andrew likes less than being tricked, but not knowing things does make the cut. He stands, throws his messenger bag over his shoulder, grabs his coffee, and stomps over to slide into the chair across from the guy. He looks up at Andrew with a flash of calculated flight or fight in his eyes, but he quickly smooths this over and affixes a look of polite interest on his face. “Can I help you?”
“Are you on Grindr?” Andrew asks. Bluntly.
“Uh,” the guy says, looking more confused. “I don’t know. What is it?”
“It’s a hookup app gay men use.”
“Oh,” he says, frowning. “No, I’m definitely not on that.”
“Because you don’t do gay men?”
The guy shrugs. “Because I don’t do hookups.”
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- Part 1 of Catfish
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08 Feb 2026
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"A dragon," the hunter whispers, voice low and shocked.
The reaction is almost enough to make Andrew stop and stare in disbelief, because how the fuck is that a shock? This hunter, this boy, should have known exactly what he shot down out of the sky.
The first time Andrew and Neil meet, they both survive the encounter. It's a surprise, but far from the only one Neil brings into his life.
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18 Jan 2026
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The Smallest Exy Player, Now Even Smaller by ionlyloveyouironically
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
18 Jan 2017
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Aaron pissed somebody off, which isn't a surprise, but what happens to Andrew in retaliation definitely is.
(Just another beloved-character-gets-magically-turned-into-a-child fic.)- Language:
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17 Jan 2026
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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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11 Jan 2026
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"Is this your fucking date spot?" Allison asks, the joy like water spilling from a damn, a cackle woven between syllables.
"It's a Chili's," Neil deadpans.
"Holy shit, it is. You guys were totally holding out on us."
"Wonder why."
The Foxes decide to eat at an off-campus restaurant. Andrew and Neil are already quite familiar with it.
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11 Jan 2026
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“This is exactly why I don’t want you and Andrew to meet,” Aaron says grumpily. “You two would get along far too well.”
Neil grins. “I just like pissing you off,” he says, “It’s not my fault your brother does such a good job at it.”—
Neil doesn’t expect much from his Sophomore year of college, but when he becomes a waiter at the Palmetto Bistro, his life gets a whole lot more interesting. As it turns out, maintaining friendships new and old as well as navigating an interesting relationship with the head chef of the restaurant—who just so happens to be his best friend’s twin brother—is a lot more complicated than he’d thought it would be.
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11 Jan 2026
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Andrew has a stable life. He has a stable job, people who he doesn’t hate talking to, a cat who likes him, and a house with a door that locks. He’s fine.
But that’s the problem. He’s just fine. No more, no less. Some days, he forgets that behind the picket fences and pristine gardens are people just as messed up as him, and it feels like he’s alone in Palmetto.
Until he’s sitting at a PTA meeting, bored out of his mind, waiting to drive Renee home, when this guy steps up to the mic. And a lot changes.
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- Part 13 of fx's writing
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10 Jan 2026
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February, 1996: Andrew gets into his car and disappears over the horizon, leaving Aaron and Neil behind to pick up the pieces.
Two and a half years later, he walks back into their lives.
Please do not translate or republish this work.
Complete - posting Tuesdays and Fridays.
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- Part 1 of like water.
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06 Jan 2026
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Andrew absolutely should not be interested in Kevin's protege.
For one thing, he's too young.
For another thing...
Nope, that's it.
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06 Jan 2026
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They say soul drawings are three things. One: a way to recognize your soulmate. Two: a clue to help you find them. Three: a symbol of what your relationship will mean to each other.
“A key is a hopeful sign, and an interesting juxtaposition with a wild animal’s paw print,” another therapist says to him, years later. Andrew is twelve and he’s never shown this one his soul mark, but it’s in his medical file, like everyone’s is. The doodle of the key, now sharp enough in his mind that even the teeth are the same every time, Andrew let slip by accident.
“A key could mean a lot of things for someone like you,” the man continues. A foster kid, he means. A kid who hasn’t lasted longer than a year in the same household his whole life, he means. “What do you think it might symbolize in your relationship with your soulmate? A place to call home?”
Andrew doesn’t get to have a place to call home. He knows that.
“A door that locks,” Andrew says flatly.
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06 Jan 2026
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The worst part of it all was that he had felt so good about this step. He'd thought about it for weeks before he asked and Neil had been receptive.
Now he's staring at scars on Neil that he had only ever seen in a mirror before. Scars that Neil would have told him about if Neil remembered anything about getting them.
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Andrew realizes that Neil was sexually assaulted at the Nest and Neil has no idea.Series
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06 Jan 2026
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Andrew is a professional Exy player looking for a tattoo artist to cover up his self harm scars. Enter tattoo artist Neil Josten and Andrew being entirely unprepared for how much he grows to enjoy the mans company.
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04 Jan 2026
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Andrew’s own sarcastic remark was halted by a horrid sensation on his tongue; the unpleasant mixture of fizz and tart chemicals reminded him of—
He sharply turned his head to find Neil Josten chugging his sparkling water with reckless abandon.
And Andrew was tasting every drop.
In a world where people can taste whatever their soulmate consumes, tired barista Andrew Minyard is in for a shock when a certain pro Exy player begins frequenting his cafe and unknowingly torments his tastebuds.
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04 Jan 2026
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When Neil Josten gets arrested for a fake ID and thrown into the Juvenile Detention System, he knows that he's running on borrowed time before his father's men catch up.
His mother is dead, there's nowhere to run, there's nothing left at all but an Exy court at the Oakland County Detention Center that he has to earn the right to play on through good behavior.
And Neil's never been great at obeying rules.
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An Andriel AU where the boys meet as teens in Juvie.
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04 Jan 2026
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Neil was singing in the shower again.
Neil didn’t like to sing in front of other people. He thought no one could hear him, but Andrew always turned off the TV when Neil went to shower so Andrew could hear his low timbre through the wall, mixed with the spray of the water and echoing off the tiles of the small bathroom.
Sometimes, it was a blessing Neil was so dumb.
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03 Jan 2026
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Andrew’s team just won the Championship and now he has to attend the gala with a plus one. And to everyone’s surprise he shows up with Neil at his side.
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03 Jan 2026
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trivial questions about a triple murder (with answers) by Leocante
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
26 Mar 2022
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Nathan Wesninski was dead. And so was Lola Malcolm. Romero Malcolm. They were all dead, their bodies scattered over the floors tainted with blood, with the prospect of peace. Baltimore could start healing.
Nathan Wesninski was dead, but his killer was smiling, and Andrew couldn't shake off the feeling that it wasn't the end of anything. The city thrived off crime, and the crime itself was so much bigger than a triple murder. So much more important in the bright white of the interrogation room.
The killer was smiling. Andrew sat into a chair across him.
Cameras stayed off.
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01 Jan 2026
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And then, unfortunately, Aaron has an idea.
The idea itself is almost not worth having. It is deeply unethical. It is the opposite of ‘do no harm,’ and it is not even guaranteed to work. Aaron actually thinks that this idea might be worse for his license than performing illegal care on a probable criminal in a back alley in the dark. No, Aaron thinks, it is undeniably worse.
“You’re a survivor,” Aaron repeats. “You should already be dead, but you’re not. You should pass out sometime in the next few minutes, but I’m guessing you won’t.” Aaron squares his shoulders, makes himself say the words. “If I give you an address, can you get there?
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An AU where Aaron is a doctor, Andrew is FBI, and Neil’s gone rogue against the mafia. Neil needs medical care, and it really should be Aaron performing it, right? Right??Bookmarked by ex_ma
01 Jan 2026
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be neither fish nor fowl by vicariously kingly (pelted)
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
29 May 2016
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They found it in the locked room of a Royal Navy's vessel, The Fox waiting to take her crew and their new spoils across the deep blue.
It was beautiful. It was rarer than any diamond.
“A mermaid,” Dan laughed, taking a step back and sweeping her hat off her head to hold to her chest. “They were transporting a mermaid.”
It was going to make them rich.
( wherein the Foxes are pirates, Neil has gills, and no one quite trusts the magic. )
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- Part 1 of Fear No Fall
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31 Dec 2025
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Can We Burn Something, Babe? by lady_flash for Random2002
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
07 Dec 2022
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In which Neil and Andrew break up, and Neil falls into Kevin’s bed. Things only get more complicated from there.
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- Part 1 of Can We Burn Something Babe? Universe
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30 Dec 2025