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  1. Rec 29

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    Tyler could have sworn he had just gotten off the stage from a show in 2016.

    Somehow, in some way, he finds himself transported back to 2011. He's convinced it's a prank at first, but then he sees Josh with a full head of hair and bare arms.

    This Josh is not HIS Josh, but a version of him from years ago. It's his Josh from a time when life was simple.

    Tyler can't pass on the opportunity to show this Josh, who claims he's just a top, that he has a different side to him.

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    10 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 25

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    Boredom brings Josh to the worst places— one in the morning boredom at that. He goes places he wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole at this time of night.

    Josh scrolls through Grindr as a nightly activity. Sometimes it works out in his favor, and sometimes he goes to bed frustrated.

    There’s one face he’s been avoiding. It calls to him like a siren in the deepest parts of the sea. The violently adorable picture of a man hidden in his hoodie. A profile Josh has clicked once before deciding to never look at it again.

    TJ.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Tyler has been slipping between dimensions for a long time. In one dimension, he’s Tyler Joseph, one half of the award-winning band Twenty One Pilots. In the other, he’s Clancy, a citizen of Dema. He’s used to the double life, and he's accepted a boring existence in Dema and a lonely existence in the real world. That is, until he meets Torchbearer, a man with his best friend’s face and none of his memories, who changes everything he thought about what life on Trench could be. Meanwhile, Tyler has been growing distant from Josh as his secret becomes harder and harder to manage, and all Josh wants is for his friend to let him back in.
    With a war for control of Dema on the horizon, Tyler must find his way back to his best friend if he wants to survive—in either dimension.

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    03 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 34

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    The thing about machines is that they did unwanted jobs: bagging groceries, assembling cars, and sweeping floors. Things no one had the time or energy for in such a busy world.

    That was why Tyler hated the robot. He didn't need an assistant. He wasn't an unwanted job. He was normal.

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    03 Jun 2026

  5. Rec 18

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    After a festival and a long day of traveling, Tyler and Josh are eager to get settled in their motel room and have a restful sleep.

    The couple on the other side of the wall have other plans. Namely, keeping everyone up with their dirty talk.

    A harmless game of repeating what they hear in an effort to make the other uncomfortable leads to an eruption of feelings that neither of them are quite prepared for.

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    24 May 2026