Onsen Oddity

Jamie is 19 and fresh out of high school, taking a gap year before committing to four years of post-secondary education before entering the workforce. He’s always been fascinated by Japan and saves up enough money working during the summer to go on an overseas trip for the holidays. He makes his way from Kyushu in the south all the way to snowy Hokkaido in the north, where a strange encounter at an old onsen up in the mountains changes his life forever. 

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Shadow Lust

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A/N: As I’ve expressed before, fanfiction is not a thing that I like to do, especially in the context of this blog and story requests that I receive. I wrote this for a friend. Please don’t expect fanfiction to be more common on this blog. It will not be. I might start an Archive of Our Own account if I decide to write more fanfiction and future works will be posted there.

Persona 5 AU – Akechi Goro and Kurusu Akira are in university now, and continuing the work of the Phantom Thieves, keeping Mementos in check and making sure to collapse any palaces that crop up. A mission goes awry, however, when they face a shadow unlike any they’ve fought before.

Story Request by @icecladshade
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Pole-ing Station

It’s election season, and having missed the last one because he wasn’t old enough, Gavin is more than ready to do his civic duty and vote. He knows things can get pretty crowded since he’s living in Manhattan, so he goes to his local polling station bright and early only to find that it’s already packed and that there’s an hour-long wait. Determined not to let the travesty that was the last election happen, though, he decides to stay and see this through. Things aren’t quite as they seem when he enters the DIQ-sponsored polling station, but he leaves plenty satisfied that he’s done his job as an upstanding citizen and a new supporter of DIQ’s progressive agenda in congress.

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Gender Studies

Dr. Taron Burns is a sociologist by trade and has to teach a second year liberal arts course in order to satisfy the terms of his tenure appointment. He has a reputation as being a relatively easygoing teacher, a lenient marker, and all-around nice guy. This year, he’s talking about gender roles and how they help and hinder progress in broader human society. Only, something strange is happening: his class is shrinking and it seems to be the girls, without exception, who are dropping out of his class, along with some of the more timid boys. He doesn’t know what to make jockboys that stay in his class, but he certainly finds the way that they look at him distracting. 

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