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  1. Rec 8

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    After almost nine years, Nico has finally gotten his life back together. So has Will, in a different way, on his own path. They're both in the Bay, both in school where they want to be, working on what they want to do. And they're friends again. Things are good. Things are great.

    So why does it still feel like there's something missing?

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    14 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Actually, no. He’s not too proud to acknowledge the young, hurt part of him that is always, in some way, even nine years later, still frozen under his favorite tree at the edge of the woods. Waiting for Nico to come back. That was then, though.

    Lou doesn’t say what they really meant, which was more along the lines of, does your boyfriend know that Will’s back in love with you?

  2. Rec 4

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    It’s been a year and a half since Aphrodite’s shitshow, since they finally processed the things they never had and agreed to move on, and how many times has Will made it clear they’re fine now? Not that they really talk about it in so many words anymore, but that’s because they shouldn’t have to. They’re friends. Not close ones, but friends. And Nico has a boyfriend. So why on earth is he calling Will, right now, to do this?

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    14 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    “I like your hair,” Will tells him as he lets go again. Nico raises an eyebrow: “No, really, I actually do! It looks cool.”

    “Well, thanks,” Nico says, and at last he almost looks comfortable with it. “I’m trying something new.”

  3. Rec *

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    After fifteen years of knowing about gods and monsters, Will would have thought nothing could surprise him anymore. Demigods learn young to expect the unexpected, and he maybe knows that even better than most. But coming home from Saturday roommate brunch, seven years after Nico broke his heart and just a few months after the long-time-coming breakdown finally ruined his life, to find Nico barely-conscious and bleeding on his doorstep—that’s a little outside the range of life complications even Will would usually account for.

    And it definitely wasn’t in Nico's plans. He's finally trying to get his life back together; he doesn’t need to have it derailed by Will’s stupid face and eyes and shoulders. But evidently, the universe—or the Fates—or maybe some deity in particular—has other ideas.

    Winner, Solangelo Fic Awards 2022, Best Chaptered (Unfinished) <333 (THANK YOU!!)

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    14 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    this whole fic ruined my life actually

    “I’m sorry,” Nico says, “if you didn’t want, I—I didn’t mean to—”

    “It’s okay, it’s—no, I was gonna say I’m—cause, no, it wasn’t—just you—” Will shakes his head, and with a decided air of fuck it, he grabs Nico’s other shoulder too and pulls him back in.

    His lips are chapped—of course; it’s almost winter. He still tastes like hot chocolate. Nico isn’t sure he’s ever kissed anyone the way he kisses Will back right now, including Will himself. Before. He feels like if he doesn’t, he might actually die.

  4. Rec 5

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    Nico isn’t sure what exactly he expected from visiting Will. But he thinks it went well. At least, it could have gone so much worse.

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    13 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    as if there’s any way in any universe Nico could ever hook up with Will on the side of anything, could ever be any kind of casual with him, as if that’s not the literal exact reason they didn’t have sex eight months ago—like the idea of even trying doesn’t make him feel kind of nauseous—

  5. Rec 4

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    “So—what made you decide to give therapy another try?” And Nico got stuck again.

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    13 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    How he and Reyna had become friends, or part of it. About Jason. His father bringing him to New Rome—about finding Hazel in the Underworld and helping her sneak out—Hades, and Pluto, finally placing some trust in him, and Nico had never known how much was newfound respect after the Battle of Manhattan, and how much was genuine remorse for how he had treated him before it, and how much, if any, of that was an ancient god with his own agenda seeing right through his lonely, miserable, Catholic guilt-ridden gay son’s desperation to be loved and valued by anyone at all