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John lets himself in and climbs the stairs to the second-floor studio, where the piano lives, flicking on the lights as he goes. It’s well after most classes and dance companies have retired for the evening, and he usually has this place all alone. It’s a little lonely… but it’s better than nothing.
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AKA: John Egbert is a pianist, and Dirk Strider is the principle male dancer of a ballet company. After both getting out of long-term relationships, John and Dirk meet. -
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When Dirk's bathroom is flooding, he turns to Grindr to find someone nearby who might have a screwdriver he can borrow. John has been playing around on Grindr without really confronting his sexuality. As Dirk renovates his falling-down house and John builds a life for himself outside of his failed marriage, fate keeps throwing them together.
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26 Apr 2025
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After 16 years apart living their adult lives, John moves back into town, where he runs into Dirk, and finally gets the chance to share something that's been on his mind.
Title from "Bloom" by Mae.
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26 Apr 2025
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Dirk and John know each other through Dave and decide to fake being married so that they can rig the room lottery and share with someone they've been assured is cool. There's only one bed and shenanigans ensue. Written in the form of an r/relationships post.
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26 Apr 2025
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Dirk Strider is dating his brother's best friend. And if he doesn't know that yet....
Well! What he doesn't know can't hurt him.Bookmarked by ratherthanday
26 Apr 2025
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“What would you do, if nothing could stop you?” he asks you. “What would you build?”
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(In which an old academic rivalry between the best and brightest students of the Prospitian Royal University turns into a dark, spiraling courtship of blood and bones and metal.)
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- Part 1 of unfashioned creatures
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26 Apr 2025
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You know what they say, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, a Twitter flame war, an elaborate spite menu, and a whole lot of inept flirting.
Entry for the DirkJohn Big Bang 2020.
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26 Apr 2025
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As Dirk places his hand in John’s, he tilts his head to the side questioningly.
“You did hear me just now when I said I don’t know how to dance, right?”
“I can show you what to do,” John says, and the proposition is received with an agreeable enough shrug of Dirk’s shoulders.
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26 Apr 2025
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i made the art for this one way back when for the bigbang!
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Like what sort of guy says he's a god and then lets fifty doves shit on him?
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26 Apr 2025
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Across the room, Dirk Strider stares you down. You get the feeling, if he weren’t wearing his dumb triangle shades, the two of you would be making some seriously intense and uncomfortable eye contact. It’s nearly impossible to look away. He’s posted against the wall, nursing a can of orange soda, not talking to anyone. Just like you.
Except you’re drinking hooch, not gross Fanta.
(Or, John Egbert is clueless and Dirk Strider doesn't have a clue.)
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26 Apr 2025
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There’s no way John would willingly choose to be around him without some kind of incentive, considering what happened last time they hung out. Especially since he hasn’t talked to him – really talked to him – since then.
So.
It just makes sense.
And it’s fine. It’s totally fine.Bookmarked by ratherthanday
26 Apr 2025
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restraints, blindfolds, and other totally platonic devices by ectoprince
Fandoms: Homestuck
14 Jul 2020
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Sometimes you just want to let go, but that doesn't come naturally to you either. You're not sure that anything does. Maybe being a massive tool. You've never really had any problem with that.
The point is—you need help.
(Or, Dirk wants to give up control and John has two hands and a riding crop.)
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26 Apr 2025
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Please read tags! I will place content warnings in the END notes on certain chapters but there are some sensitive topics explored through this work. Please keep yourselves safe!
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You mean to open your mouth to refuse.
You really do.
“... Fine. Just don’t... don’t expect anything from me. I don’t have anything left to give. Not to you, not to anyone. Not even to myself. I’m... I’m not going be considerate of you.” You watch closely as something in Dirk’s expression shifts and relaxes, and he nods.
“That’s more than fine by me,” and you feel yourself exhale. You didn’t know you were holding your breath.
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- Part 1 of Fever Dream
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26 Apr 2025
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(and the whole wide world's coming after you)
dirk and john are apocalypse survivors raising a kid together. what could possibly go wrong!
written in a series of 5 15 minute sprints with minimal editing.
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26 Apr 2025
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John is fed up with a certain spiky-haired barista for misspelling his name because 'it's really not that hard! jeez!' But said barista has an ulterior motive, seven hours left on the clock, and an orange pen - and he's not afraid to use it. Shenanigans ensue.
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26 Apr 2025
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John and Dirk are spare wheels as far as their very coupled off friends are concerned. They get paired off as the only single ones in the group and get close. And then they get married, as a joke, as a fuck you to their friends who want them to settle down and as a way to solidify their beautiful bromance. It's the biggest game of gay chicken you've ever seen. It ends happily ever after.
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- Part 1 of Gay Chicken
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26 Apr 2025
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this is THE single greatest dirkjohn fic
and i've had this tag open as a tab for five years straight
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You saved his body for a reason, right? Maybe it doesn’t even have to be the end for him. Endings are kind of overrated anyway.
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26 Apr 2025
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Dirk has a bad habit of thinking things are completely fine until they're undeniably not. His relationship with Jake is no exception. Then Jake breaks up with him over the phone.
When he goes to try convince Jake not to do this, he is instead met by Jake's cousin, John, who informs him Jake left the country. He and John end up spending a lot of time together.
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- Part 1 of Home is Where the Heart Can Breathe
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26 Apr 2025
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“Why didn’t you ask for presentation? On the application for the apartment.”
He gives you a squinty, side-eyed look, like he’s trying to figure out whether you’ve asked him a trick question or not. “Becaaaauuuuse it’s none of my business?”
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Dirk is a puzzle box of repressed emotion and touch-aversion, and he's got a huge secret that makes romance impossible. John, however, doesn't care much for rules. Or personal boundaries.
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- Part 1 of pull the wool over your eyes
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26 Apr 2025
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Dirk has fries. Seagulls like fries. Dirk has no sense of restraint and utilizes the fact that seagulls like fries to fill a train car with seagulls.
This gets him punched.
By a cute guy.
(based on this!)
Russian translation here!
podfic here!
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26 Apr 2025
