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    The air up here was disrespectful.

    That was the first thing Kip Grady noticed when he stepped out of his dad’s beat-up Honda Civic. The air in Brooklyn had texture. It had weight. It smelled like hot asphalt, exhaust fumes, and the specific, comforting garbage funk of a Tuesday afternoon. You knew where you stood with Brooklyn air.

    The air here—four hours north, deep in the "Upstate" wilderness of the university—was suspicious. It was too thin. It smelled like pine needles and aggression. It smelled like people who hiked for fun.

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    Eighteen-year-old Kip is figuring out student life and developing a massive crush on his History professor, Scott Hunter - whose books may or may not have inspired Kip to major in History.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    One of my absolute favorite Skip fics.

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    Shane works in IT.

    Ilya’s computer always seems to be fucked up.

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    29 Dec 2025

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    Hollanov

  3. Public Bookmark 65

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    Verso Dessendre needs a fake boyfriend for his family's annual Christmas trip to the Alps.

    Gustave Rénier—his childhood crush and the man he hasn't seen in ten years—needs a reason to say yes to something reckless for once in his carefully organized life.

    What starts as a week of pretense in a snow-covered chalet becomes something neither of them expected: late-night conversations, stolen touches, and the slow realization that some things were never fake to begin with.

    Seven days. One bed. Two people who've been wanting each other for far too long.

    Sometimes the best love stories start with a lie.

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    22 Dec 2025

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    After Maelle takes over the canvas, Verso struggles to find meaning in the new Lumière. At least, until Gustave offers him to participate in a project together. Slowly, Verso starts to see the man he left to die in a different light, as he also struggles with the guilt of knowing that he's slowly falling in love with him.

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    21 Dec 2025

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    Gustave and Verso are out buying Christmas presents when they run into each other in the busy, narrow aisle of the Lumière bookstore. It's been years since they've seen each other, and their school days when they were friends are even further away.

    But they weren't just friends, although neither was brave enough to admit their crush back then and teenage love was buried when their paths diverted when Verso moved to Paris for university.

    Yet now that they are both in Lumière for the Christmas season, those feelings quickly rekindle.

    Will they finally have their romance this Christmas?

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    21 Dec 2025

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