#boreo fanfic rec

[foundmywei]

bringing this back!!

Boreo Fanfic Recs

Here are my favorite boreo fics, I will be updating this as I read more. Enjoy!

(last updated on 14/01/23)

Masterpost

sunday morning (and i’m falling) by thenewgothicromance

post-canon

(11,424 words | Not Rated | Chapters: 1/1)

“How long will he be staying with you?” Mrs. Barbour asks him one evening, when he mentions that Boris will be picking him up after dinner.

“I’m not sure,” he tells her, keeping the details, as always surrounding Boris, as vague as possible. “Just until he figures something else out.”

Mrs. Barbour clicks her tongue at him.

“You have such a kind heart, Theo. Be careful you don’t let him take advantage of you.”

you are my sweetest downfall. by punkrockdog

post-canon

(22,530 words | General Audiences | Chapters: 1/1)

There’s nothing wrong with sleeping with his best friend of almost ten years on a regular basis.

If Theo tells himself this enough, he might start to believe it.

Keep reading

[speak-now-girlies-unite]

if anyone has fic recs i would very much appreciate them

i mainly read one shots but chaptered fics definitely will steal my heart so anything is fine. reddie, boreo or byler or maybe like. a found family fic of sbi. honestly if it’s really good i don’t care that much if i even know who the people are. romance wise, i’m very much a sucker for fake dating. if it’s in the it universe, stan being important in any way will kill me. uh. i think that’s all but if not i’ll put it in the tags.

[can-i-ship-in-queering-peace]

*holds out hand* pls, sir may i have some.

i need good comfort reads and fix it fics for any of my fandoms pls lmk/link me cause fathers day is hard on me without mine around for a while now cause he’s trash, but this year has been a lot so just def need to take some time for myself then.  thanks <3

[tvlikesgirls]

Hello Everyone!!

some things about me:

⛦ 17

⛦ She/her (although tbh never minded they)

⛦ bisexual i think we still figuring it out

⛦ Girlkisser

⛦ Pink, Purple, and Black are my fav colors

⛦ cringe fandom kid

⛦ fanfic reader

⛦ literally richie tozier as a girl

⛦ Oxford Comma and Semi-Colon user

*₊°。Mainly a Byler Account * ೃ

FANDOMS *:･ﾟ

♡ Stranger Things

Byler

Lumax

Elmax

Rockie / Rovickie

Steddie

Jopper

Jancy

Duzie

Jargyle (kind of a joke i think?)

Bonus: Mike wheeler had a mini crush on Eddie truther

♡ IT (2017) & (2019)

Reddie

Billverly

Benverly

Stanbrough

Mike & Stan

Henry & Patrick

♡ Harry Potter

Drarry

Ronmione

Linny

Deamus

Pansmione

Blaise & Ron

Luneville

Wolfstar

Jegulus

Jeverus

♡ The Goldfinch

Boreo. Thats it.

♡ Anne with an 'E'

Shirbert

Anne & Diana

Jerry & Diana

Anne & Ruby

♡ Legend of Zelda

Zelink

Sidlink

Miphlink

Urbosa & Zelda

♡ Heartstopper

All canon

♡ Sally Face

Salvis <3

♡ The Owl House

Lumity

All canon Ships

Gustholomule

Boscha & Willow

♡ Bobs Burgers

Tina & Jimmy Jr

♡ Helluva Boss

Stolitz <3

All canon ships

♡ Wicked

Gelphie

i probably have more fandoms and ships i like but those are the ones i can think of of the top of my head

Bold = My main ships

if anyone has recomendations for other ships i should check out or fic recs, put em in my asks!

thank you if you've made it this far 🩷🩷🩷 much love 🥰

[potter-pavlikovsky-popchyk]

okay I really haven’t read many fics but forgot I made this post, I should add, my top fav that one of my Boreo tumblr frens found for meeee again after I ranted about it here lol

It’s like one of few that I actually got to read that’s not mine and I’m obsessed. I really do wanna do a podcast. (Also don’t laugh ok buuuut I actually only remembered enough about it to tell them about it because I had stoped like not even half way through to rec a practice podfic if it cause I was like eeeek this is toooo good. And I saw this long voice memo then and was like what is this listened to like 5 seconds and was ecstatic that I could jot down bits now and find it 🤘🏻😮‍💨😩🤌🏻THANK GOD IM SO WEIRD!!!!) lol

also I since dropped a new series for them 👀😅🙈hyperfixation got hands ok.

I’m very proud of this playlist ive started up for Boreo v much the music duuude all the songs ugh so perf for them (idk what that says about me and my music taste of how easily this accumulated together quickly) but enjoy pls!!!! (Note my taste is all over but trust them lyrics are perfect for our boys)(haven’t had time to rearrange the order of songs much but I’ll try to work on it as I have time till then skip around or just take screenshots and put into YouTube if you don’t have Spotify premium like I do when I don’t want the add breaks. I may make a YT playlist if anyone wants me to that’s a lot of work so I gotta know)

My Boris playlist is long enough and I listened to most of it through again I think it’s good enough to share lol, whatever. Ignore songs that don���t go I might have added by accident. It’s got vibes for his whole life, him alone, with family after Theo and of course with Theo.

So, energetically, very all over the place. Some dark desolate vibes, mixed states of being in a place of distortion as well as, of course mania. Drugs, mental illness struggles, unhealthy coping mechanisms, disconnect, and overwhelm.

Also here is my Archive. Broreo series I just started but look forward to more this is just a lil side project

^still releasing updates. Second ch. recently. Long installment coming up.

(Forgot to share this little random but that came to me. Was my first post but it’s really just a bit of a poetic summary on things in a Boreo way)

The newest lil guy out here, my lil gay bbiiii. (I say but he’s the biggest boy I’ve had yet)

[thequestoftheravenclaws]

The Goldfinch: Boreo Fic Rec List

These are some of my favorite boreo Goldfinch fanfics. None of these are mine. These ones really stuck with me and were beautiful to read. 

a spring memorandum by yowler 

“In the dark where no one can see, Boris presses his lips to the thin knot of scar tissue over Theo’s wrist. It’s a request; for forgiveness, for absolution, for something neither of them has a name for.

“But you are alive,” he says, “you idiot.”

(Theo and Boris meet during the war.)”

you are my sweetest downfall by punkrockdog

“There's nothing wrong with sleeping with his best friend of almost ten years on a regular basis.

If Theo tells himself this enough, he might start to believe it.”

the needle in the dark (when the sun kicks out) by p3trichor

“Boris thinks a lot about how they’d die in Vegas. Boris with some dramatic explosive death, chaotic and loud and maybe an accident. Falling off a building or getting hit by a car or killing himself with drugs. Theo would implode in on himself, quiet and polite and nondisruptive. Drinking himself to death or bleeding out in a bathtub. Both boys just like dying stars, deciding whether it’s worth it to turn into a black hole or not.

Theo and Boris keep finding each other, for better or for worse.”

le cirque des rêves by basha

““Theo Decker spends most of his life obsessed with the magical Night Circus and the strange boy who lives in it.”

notes from a catastrophe by patrokla 

“Life, Potter. I always find that I want more of it.”

In post-catastrophe Manhattan, Theo investigates a rumor and finds Boris.”

they are one person, they are two alone, they are three together by lesbianbabydriver

“There were many nights Boris remembers that Theo doesn’t--always a gulf between them, these things unacknowledged. Boris would always know more about Potter than Potter would know about him. There would always be the sound of sobs echoing in Boris’s ears, always the vodka-soaked late night admissions, the jumping off the roof, the blood spattering on the tiles. Always the feeling of Potter’s breath hot against his neck as he said “she called me Puppy sometimes” and then, always Boris allowing himself to whisper tsutsenya later when the dust and rubble tore Theo’s mother away in his dreams and brought Potter gasping back to reality in Boris’s arms.

There would always be the night Potter showed him the painting.

“You’re a blackout drunk, Potter, you know that?”

or, Boris tries to remember why he took it”

The Before, After, and Forever by makkachincrossing

“The attack at The Met… That wasn’t the first explosion it had survived.”

“No?”

“No, a gunpowder factory exploded nearby Fabritius’ studio, killing him and destroying nearly all of his paintings,” I took a breath, unsteady. “But The Goldfinch… The Goldfinch survived.”

A hand on my shoulder. Long fingers, a firm squeeze, grounding me to earth. “You survived too, Potter.”

I looked to him, eyes aching behind my glasses.

“Life exploding around you. You survived. You, too, are Goldfinch.”

Lights Up If You Know Who Are by nothingwithoutyouxo

“After accidently stumbling upon the Mirror of Erised, Theo is determined to show Boris what he saw.”

Find Other Muses by deadspy

“Theo folds and unfolds the old postcard from Boris. GREETINGS FROM KANSAS! it reads, same as it always has, but now it just feels like a taunt.

Ten years after Amsterdam, Theo and Boris find themselves, and each other, in the most unlikely of places.”

if you promise to stay conscious I will try to do the same by scenedenial

“The doctor has a soft voice and wears too much blush. She asks him about his eating, his anxiety levels, his headaches, his reflex times. About his partner.

“Teeth is...” Theo bites at his lower lip, never knowing what answer to this question they want. Boris—Teeth—is a brutal shot. His knuckles are always raw and bruised from going hand-to-hand. He drinks black tea with honey and is constantly taking the piss. Sometimes, Theo gets up to him vomiting behind a closed door. Sometimes, he jerks awake in the night and cries so hard that Theo thinks it may never stop. “He’s solid.”

Theo wonders like hell what Boris says about him.”

A New Life for You (and Me) by Mystical_Artist

“Boris buys them a house in the country.

Theo thinks the whole thing seems kind of gay.

If the old lady across the street with binoculars is any indication, he's not the only one.”

Death & Disaster. by theweakestthing

“The street lights haloed Boris, spilling orange light through his hair and around his face. It was only then that Theo heard the music again, it was muffled through the windows of the car, at first he didn’t recognise what it was. Then the words ‘I’m not in love’ cut through Theo’s head and he knew exactly what it was. He didn’t miss the irony, though he wished he had.”

made this place for you by pissard

“Theo is back in New York and things come together then begin to unravel”

i hear you, you analog boy by camellialice

“Theo just wants to ask his next-door neighbor to have quieter sex. In return he gets his life turned upside down, a new best friend, a lot of heartache, and maybe even a kiss or two.(or: on broken edges and flimsy walls, cracks and nonsense, finding love in the in-between)“

Carry Me Home by zoeburchard

“Three times Boris carries Theo and one time Theo carries Boris.

"“What the mother fuck, Boris!?” He practically jumped out of my arms, onto the pavement where he promptly fell on his ass.

I shrugged, “You were shit faced, falling all over. You trip and pass out, had to get you home somehow.”

Eying me suspiciously up through his glasses he pushed himself to his unsteady feet brushing himself off. I gave him a look that said What? Did nothing wrong! And he seemed to understand.

Pushing his his glasses up, he looked down, almost shyly, and said, “Oh— uh, thanks I guess.”"

[sparklygraves]

<3

BOREO fanfic recs plz! :)

[eddiemunsononlyfans]

megan!! sorry i don’t mean to bother but do you have any boreo fanfics you can rec me? i haven’t read some in awhile and i want to dive back in

hell yeah brother (dot) jpeg

honestly i haven’t read that many and by that many i’ve read like that 20k one and 5 others but! bangerz only

corrina, corinna by curlymcclain (made me lose my God Damn mind)

and twice more our paths crossed through the night by thewindupbird (hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

delicate, isn’t it? by macremae (i cannot stress how much i hate gay people it’s unreal)

overlap by rosekings (HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

all children are sleeping but you by shamefulshameless and curlymcclain (this fic took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. it took and took from me until I no longer existed. that’s murder.) 

these are on the to-be-read list aka what i’m reading tonight probably:

stars and midnight blue by borisrings and papenathy

i will be there too by why0325

a renaissance, another day by randomhorse

find other muses by deadspy

100000% i’ve missed good ones simply because i haven’t gotten too deep in the boreo tag yet so feel free to add on

[booksandpaperss]

OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG

Does anyone have good Boreo fic recs? I’m in the mood to read someee

[theodyker]

What are your fav boreo fanfics?

oh geez i’m a bad person to ask bc i actually don’t have a lot of time to read much fic lol i answered this question a while ago with some recs here , and literally the only fics i’ve read since are:

twist and then collide

one too many mornings

but there are so many great fics i haven’t been able to get to, don’t be afraid to try them out!

[can-i-ship-in-queering-peace]

Don’t usually let y’all know my business like this but could y’all send me any good enby fanfics or arts. As well as anything with body image issues, eating issues, s/h issues, personal space/touch issues, letting ppl in, autism/adhd-nerodivergent, lonely, depression, mental illnesses, repression, self hate, addiction and touch starved but scared of anything.. that sort of thing. It’s a comfort to see characters i project onto feel/go through what I’m struggling with. I’m doing okay don’t worry but in fighting against stuff idk it’s helpful for me. I just don’t have the energy to try to sort through archive rn tbh.

(Boreo, Byler, Reddie) are my top ships in this blog as a reminder. I love a good hurt comfort and angst. Fluff is lovely too. I just really need some care and comfort through fandom means

[foundmywei]

Fanfic Recs Masterpost

For everyone’s convience (mostly mine), I’ll gather my fanfic recs posts here

Boreo

Banana fish

Stranger Things

Mikayuu

Liushen Part 1

Liushen Part 2

Iwaoi

Soukoku

Buddie Part 1

Buddie Part 2

Buddie Part 3

[can-i-ship-in-queering-peace]

song recs, please ?

I’ve been listening a lot to my own novel playlist I’m working on since I’ve been trying to work on building up that dream world but most all of them worked in my head originally for Boreo lol sooooo I shall def share the snap shots but peep the Boreo, Byler or Reddie playlists i have on the reg I add to em all as I can and find songs for em. Boreo is almost up to 700 songs lmfaoooo 👀😅🤣the hyperfixation got haaaands. Shoot even been adding to my playlists for my fanfics more too 😅 “I almost lost you” for Boreo has like 25 songs or something now. I’m building one up for “Forget About Kotku” too already has 11 songs and counting.

Here’s some I have been going back to a lot.

[foundmywei]

Boreo Fanfic Recs

Here are my favorite boreo fics, I will be updating this as I read more. Enjoy!

(last updated on 12/05/23)

Masterpost

sunday morning (and i'm falling) by thenewgothicromance

post-canon

(11,424 words | Not Rated | Chapters: 1/1)

“How long will he be staying with you?” Mrs. Barbour asks him one evening, when he mentions that Boris will be picking him up after dinner.

“I’m not sure,” he tells her, keeping the details, as always surrounding Boris, as vague as possible. “Just until he figures something else out.”

Mrs. Barbour clicks her tongue at him.

“You have such a kind heart, Theo. Be careful you don’t let him take advantage of you.”

you are my sweetest downfall. by punkrockdog

post-canon

(22,530 words | General Audiences | Chapters: 1/1)

There's nothing wrong with sleeping with his best friend of almost ten years on a regular basis.

If Theo tells himself this enough, he might start to believe it.

a symphony of love in several movements. by theweakestthing

post-canon

(29,364 words | Mature | Chapters: 5/5)

It reminded him of the version of Musée Rodin’s The Kiss that sat in the Tate’s collection, pockmarked and scarred from sitting in a parlour among soldiers during the war, but still standing as a testament to the carnal desires of two lovers. Twisted around each other, hands on the bed between them, their positions almost exactly mirrored that of the sculpture. The thought that together they could be a work of art pushed Theo forward.

Alternatively titled: Theo Decker needs to get his shit together.

the red sun by thefinnkinnie (orphan_account)

vegas era

(2,705 words | Not Rated | Chapters: 1/1)

Theo slid his tongue across his lower lip, considering the choice. Sober, he would be safe. These thoughts in his head, about Boris, about feeling for the first time since the museum, they would disappear, tucked away in some fold of his mind, and Theo could sink back into his soft non-existence. He was nearly there anyways, close enough he could taste the gray on his tongue like cotton balls. It would be so easy.

And yet.

something in a major key by boxedblondes

post-canon

(7,454 words | Teen And Up Audiences | Chapters: 1/1)

“Why the fuck is it so busy?” Boris asks some hours later, twinkling lights a messy rainbow swirl around them, late December cold starting to eat a hole through Theo’s less-than-ideal camel’s-hair coat.

“It’s four days until Christmas, you idiot,” Theo says. “You should have had your weird holiday epiphany like a month ago.”

sound formed in a vacuum may seem a waste of time (it’s always been just the same) by theparadigmshifts

post-canon

(3,750 words | Teen And Up Audiences | Chapters: 1/1)

The year after Amsterdam, Theo follows his conscience; Boris follows Theo.

Neptune by pavlikovskyslittlebird

post-canon

(40,202 words | Mature | Chapters: 14/14)

Post Amsterdam, canon divergent, book and movie references.

Theo tries to figure things out while buying back the changelings.

"I must be a poster child prodigy

Thread by thread I come apart

If brokenness is a work of art

Surely this must be my masterpiece

I'm only honest when it rains

If I time it right, the thunder breaks

When I open my mouth

I wanna tell you but I don't know how

I'm only honest when it rains

An open book, with a torn out page

And my inks run out

I wanna love you but I don't know how"

Neptune-Sleeping at Last

Selling a Fake by argylemikewheeler

post-canon

(35,522 words | Explicit | Chapters: 3/3)

Theo didn’t fly home right away; he stayed in Antwerp and together, he and Boris flew back to New York. They start over, two troubled teenagers all over again. They’ve replaced scorching Vegas summers with chilling New York winters. It was never about the place anyway.

They’re together-- they’re something-- but Theo still struggles to be open to strangers passing by.

(PLUS an extended part two/epilogue to give us more comforting boyfriends and less internalized homophobia for Theo!)

overlap by rosekings

Antwrep

(12,886 words | Teen And Up Audiences | Chapters: 1/1)

“Promise me you’ll come. Eventually. Just…come see me. Sit still with me for a while.” He holds back everything else he wants to say. Get a place with me. Run the shop with me. Laugh and make dinner with me. Let me wake up next to you every morning and not have to worry if I’m never going to see you again.

“I promise.” Boris says it like it was already obvious, something that didn’t even need to be said. “Of course I promise.”

You're coming back and it's the end of the world by BalalaikaPattycake

post-canon

(89,940 words | Mature | Chapters: 17/17)

We spent hours joking and laughing at the bar over a bottle of vodka, our heads together, just like we had done as boys. Trying to convince myself that the only reason I was holding my hand on his shoulder, giggling in his ear, my face mere inches away from his, was because otherwise he wouldn't hear me over the music, even though he was the one doing most of the talking. I had been drinking considerably less than normal over the past few months, so it didn't take me long to start feeling disoriented and weirdly courageous, the mass of people around me blending into each other, becoming unidentifiable like droplets of water in an ocean, with only Boris standing out as a steady beacon of light.

Set after the book ends, Theo and Boris meet again after a year and half.

And Nothing Has Changed by WhyDoesEverythingHappenSoMuch

Amsterdam

(8,361 words | Mature | Chapters: 1/1)

“Potter, maybe you have one more drink and then try and tell me you are ‘not in the mood.” He raised a hand again, but before the waitress saw, I grabbed him by the leather-clad forearm and pulled his hand back down.

“Boris, I'm engaged.” I tried again in vain to make him understand the significance of that.

“Sure, but you are here with me, drinking with me, and you are going to get to know some very good girls with me.” I hadn’t realized, but somehow his fingers had ended up laced with mine.

___

Boris and Theo's first night in Amsterdam they wind up in a bar and Boris can't seem to get off the topic of how unfair it is that Kitsey is cheating. Boris thinks Theo should have his own extramarital fun too.

To quote Donna Tartt, "matters progress"

to remember your mouth, how it tasted true by nosecoffee

post-canon

(6,422 words | Teen And Up Audiences | Chapters: 1/1)

(i don’t smoke except for when i’m missing you)

*

Theo got it into his head that the cigarettes would start the chain reaction that would send them to early graves if they weren’t careful, all spouted into the darkness of Welty’s room, while Boris perched on the windowsill.

And yet, he had grinned and put out his cigarette on the ashtray there, and said, “Then of course I will stop.”

Which was so lovely at the time. It was significantly less lovely when he found Boris smoking in the bathroom three days later.

Repression is just a Love Language Best Ignored (Looking at you, Decker) by Lemonyfreshness

post-canon

(92,031 words | Mature | Chapters: 16/16)

It's a year after "The Incident," as what Theodore Decker liked to call it, that one strange turn of events in which his childhood best friend had come to reconvene and it had been interesting to say the least...But now he was back in the real world. And broke. And high out of his mind. And depressed as ever. Theodore Decker isn't one to naturally listen to reason but maybe he will when once again his morally-grey best friend with attachment issues comes back to save the day. Or at least try in his own way. Wish him luck.

Find Other Muses by deadspy

post-canon

(38,844 words | Explicit | Chapters: 6/6)

Theo folds and unfolds the old postcard from Boris. GREETINGS FROM KANSAS! it reads, same as it always has, but now it just feels like a taunt.

Ten years after Amsterdam, Theo and Boris find themselves, and each other, in the most unlikely of places.

philophobia. by theweakestthing

post-canon

(36,292 words | Mature | Chapters: 11/11)

philophobia [ fil-uh-foh-bee-uh ]:

(n.) (from Greek "φιλέω-φιλώ" (love) and "φοβία" (phobia)) the fear of falling in love or being in love. The risk is usually when a person has confronted any emotional turmoil relating to love. This affects the quality of life and pushes a person away from commitment. A negative aspect of this fear of being in love or falling in love is that it keeps a person in solitude. It represents certain guilt and frustration towards the reaction coming from inside.

Theo knows what the problem is, but that doesn't mean that he's going to do anything about it.

Little Bird by redborya

Amsterdam

(19,376 words | Teen And Up Audiences | Chapters: 6/6)

With The Goldfinch retrieved (and returned) Theodore Decker is left in Amsterdam wondering where to go and what to do from there. It seems simple enough at first. Return to New York, marry Kistey, and continue on his life as he had before. Boris, however, suggests the complete opposite.

The Before, After, and Forever by makkachincrossing

post-canon

(13,893 words | Explicit | Chapters: 4/4)

“The attack at The Met… That wasn’t the first explosion it had survived.”

“No?”

“No, a gunpowder factory exploded nearby Fabritius’ studio, killing him and destroying nearly all of his paintings,” I took a breath, unsteady. “But The Goldfinch… The Goldfinch survived.”

A hand on my shoulder. Long fingers, a firm squeeze, grounding me to earth. “You survived too, Potter.”

I looked to him, eyes aching behind my glasses.

“Life exploding around you. You survived. You, too, are Goldfinch.”

corrina, corrina by curlymcclain

(12,821 words | Mature | Chapters: 1/1)

canon-divergence, boris follows theo to new york

Seeing him here, in New York, surrounded by the deep browns and golds of Hobart and Blackwell, is so alien to me I have to repress the urge to pinch myself like a child would after a dream. It looks incorrect, him standing here. Like someone has taken a pair of scissors to my memories of him, cut him out of his rightful place on the abandoned playground, and pasted him sloppily into a corner of my life where he doesn’t belong. Has it only been a few weeks? It feels like ages longer, like it’s been a decade, like we’re different people trying to see what exactly we liked about each other so much way back when.

But then he says it again- “Potter.”- and that feeling vanishes as quickly as it arrived.

“You came,” I say dumbly.

He gives a cheery smirk that I don’t believe. “Promised I would.”

fragile (that much he could admit) by successsionhbo

(12,592 words | Explicit | Chapters: 1/1)

post-canon

Theo has been having nightmares after his trip to antwerp. Boris comes for a visit

heaven help the fool by BucketofWater

(12,140 words | Teen And Up Audiences | Chapters: 2/2)

vegas era + post-canon, soulmate AU

He knew why. He wished that he did not but deep down he knew. They both did, at one point or another. Maybe not in words, but it was between them all the same. The way that they knew that the sky was blue and how the sun-warmed sand burned like fire. Theo loved Boris and perhaps, although he was a fool to believe it, maybe Boris loved him a little bit too.

Alternatively: the soulmate au in which every significant person in your life leaves a smudge of colour on you.

I've got the story of us written (on my skin) by Thegoldenfnch (I_write_fanfiction_sometimes)

(18,017 words | Mature | Chapters: 5/5)

all eras, soulmates AU

My mother didn’t like to talk about the marks. I still don’t know if it’s because hers had all failed her (her first love didn’t love her back, her life-friend died, and her Life Partner, well, Dad didn’t believe in soulmates) or if it was for some other unknown reason. Maybe she just couldn’t answer the questions I’d asked, like why mine were all the same. After I was around eight I stopped asking, and by the time I was ten I’d stopped telling people. They never seem to know what to say. It was only when I got older —after my mother died, but before my dad came back— that I realized why. People never know how to react to what they view as a tragedy. 

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or: No one talks about soulmarks, Theo is in denial about many things (as he usually is), and Boris never says the things that actually matter

A retelling. Now with soulmarks.

a study in inevitability by EdieFalcoRising

(14,523 words | Explicit | Series - 3 works)

post-canon

One time Theo leaves, one time Boris leaves, and the one time they make it work.

And twice more our paths crossed through the night by liminalweirdo

(2,506 words | Mature | Chapters: 1/1)

Antwrep

Takes place immediately after the end of the novel, in Boris's flat in Antwerp. Theo muses on the things they did as teenagers, and the tension between them finally reaches its breaking point. Almost.

I'm not living/I'm just killing time by lolneptune

(19,359 words | Explicit | Chapters: 3/3)

post-canon

Of course he had seen the journals. Pages and pages of rambling accounts, an encyclopedia. How could I have hidden it from the one living person who knew me?

So cruelly you kissed me by liuniverse

(4,096 words | Mature | Chapters: 1/1)

post-canon

The biggest problem with the two of us had never been whether or not we knew that we loved each other, but rather whether or not we would choose to be with one another.

Even after Boris and Theo start sleeping with each other, they struggle with talking about what they are and their feelings. Well, until an incident of jealousy forces them to.

a spring memorandum by yowler

(42,706 words | Mature | Chapters: 4/4)

WWII AU

In the dark where no one can see, Boris presses his lips to the thin knot of scar tissue over Theo’s wrist. It’s a request; for forgiveness, for absolution, for something neither of them has a name for.

“But you are alive,” he says, “you idiot.”

  (Theo and Boris meet during the war.)

the letter in the drawer by shamefulshameless

(4,136 words | Teen And Up Audiences | Chapters: 1/1)

post-canon

Before he left Amsterdam, Boris found an envelope with his name on it. He’d wanted to open it in Antwerp, but he was so caught up in it all- his wound and Theo’s illness and the high and the movies, all of it so strangely different and yet exactly the same as when they were kids- that he put it out of his mind. He didn’t want anything to interrupt them. Now, it’s like the envelope has expanded in size, every day growing bigger and bigger and threatening to crack his bedside table in two. He doesn’t know what’s stopping him, but whatever the letter contains, he knows Theo doesn’t want him to know about it. It could be nothing- there’s always been so much innocuous bullshit that Theo keeps to himself for no good reason. Or it could be something. It could be something that Boris would be content staying oblivious to. There are lots of things like that.

Uncle Francis to the rescue by liuniverse

(32,582 words | Mature | Chapters: 8/8)

post-canon

“Oh! By the way, how is your man doing?”

I blinked, confused. "My what?"

"Your man? About 5'9, dark curly hair, gorgeous green eyes, looked vaguely European…?"

"Excuse me?" He couldn't mean…

"You know, the guy who whisked you away from your engagement party?" Mr. Abernathy raised an eyebrow suggestively.

Or, how Francis accidentally ended up becoming Theo's unofficial uncle and got involved in the stupidest love drama of the 21st century when all he wanted was to learn some juicy gossip.