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    Neil had a lot of secrets. He didn’t want much in life except to live quietly, run his botanical store, upload TikToks covering plant care, and for not a single person to find out that he’s the best-selling author N.A.J who published one book anonymously five years prior and disappeared. His life takes a turn when his literary agent tracks him down for a follow-up book with the theme of feeling settled and at peace. Two things Neil is not.

    Thus begins his journey of planting roots in a town he’s lived in for years, starting with making friends with people who have tried to bring him into their circle. As Neil gets closer to them and his secrets become less guarded, there’s still that one big secret he intends on taking to his grave. But the closer he gets to his friends the closer he unknowingly gets to that secret being revealed.

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    30 May 2025

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    neil finding a home with the foxes and with andrew, lots of fun with neil as an author/artist and his plants, also sir and king !

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    Child actor made good and America's boy-next-door meets professional Exy's favorite love-to-hate-him bad boy. His reputation has never been worse.

    Merry Mixtape to loveroulettes, whose song was so perfectly Andrew & Neil. I hope you enjoy!

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    This ain't for the best
    my reputation's never been worse, so
    you must like me for me.

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    02 Mar 2025

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    fics that feel real to me, spinning actor neil around in my brain, when you like someone so much you want to be in every aspect of their life always

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    Andrew had everything he needed in life. A successful music acquisition and appraisal firm? Check. A best friend for a business partner who also happens to be a renowned concert pianist? Check. Time to play the music he wanted and cook what he wanted, and the money to afford both? Check, check, check.

    An awkward enigma of an incredibly attractive, adorably awkward, overwhelmingly talented musician with a tragic backstory and a British accent?

    Ah…he knew he was missing something.

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    10 Jan 2025

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    hauntingly beautiful, neil plays wrong but he plays right for andrew

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    Everyone on the US national team knows that Andrew Minyard and Neil Josten hate each other, so of course they all think it's hilarious to force them to share a room in the name of 'team harmony' for the entirety of the Exy World Cup.

    An enemies-to-lovers/professional Exy AU

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    26 Jun 2024

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    oh my god i loved this !!!!!!! the story and the slow burn were delightful of course and the writing... the writing !! there was such a good understanding of like repression and recovery and how easy it is to slide back into repressing and how every single day you have to work not to do that you have to work to get better until one day youre standing as a changed person but you are still exactly the same, someone who doesnt belong to this life that youve created but you have to live it anyway, whos put all this work into repression in order to cope but suddenly that wont help you anymore but whats left without it what are you meant to do if you cant switch those feelings off where is left to go
    anyway some favourite quotes bc ouch ow

    - But Andrew understands what it is that’s changed. Neil’s life changed, just as Andrew’s did. There was horror and then there wasn’t. There was just the shock of a life, unfurling before him. When you’ve been through hell, the possibility of a ‘normal life’ feels like enough. It feels like more than enough, so that something like ‘loneliness’ doesn’t seem like such a terrible thing. Until it starts emptying you.
    - The truth is, sometimes Andrew does care. But it’s like his anger; he has to swallow it down. Caring feels too much like splitting himself open for the whole world to see. It also feels a little too much like flying, like falling. The threatening tilt of vertigo. He doesn’t know what will be left of him when he lands on his feet.

    He doesn’t know how to tell Neil that not caring is just easier than caring.

    It always has been.

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    A sudden, tense silence passed between them.
    “Is it really this easy to start a band?” Lou asked.
    “Probably not,” Nico replied, “but we should meet up sometime to see what we can do.”

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    13 Apr 2024

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    this fic has haunted me in the best way ever since i read it three days ago ive never particularly wanted to start a band but after reading this its all i want to do i want to go see live music right now i want someone to sing me their problems so passionately that its almost screaming i loved this so much !!! there was such a feeling of community with the big house and especially surrounding nico and ofc solangelo my beloved this was just so so so good