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Bookmarked by Nemain
24 Feb 2025
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holometaboly: a complete metamorphosis
Alex loves his life. He lives in an incredible place. His career is on fire. He’s newly engaged to a man who is both so attractive and so genuinely kind that sometimes he has to wonder if he’s not a figment of his own hyperactive imagination.
It’s just nothing like the life that he once envisioned for himself. He always thought that he was okay with that. People get older: they wise up, they change. The Alex of today is not Alex Claremont-Diaz at twenty-two, and that’s fine, even if they’d probably resent one another if they found themselves in the same room.
A surprise encounter with ghosts from the past forces him to face the fact that maybe it’s a little bit more complex than that.
Or: Alex and Henry vs. old friends, old hookups, and old regrets.
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- Part 3 of Tattoo Alex AU
Bookmarked by Nemain
07 Aug 2024
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Alex has conquered many things in his life: a childhood split down the middle between Texas and California; nascent queerness in the red state, a thick drawl in the blue one; Georgetown admissions; Yale; the Bar; four whole months in Big Law and the realization that it would kill him by twenty-seven; a massive career change at twenty-eight; marriage; kids.
He’s never been one to back down from a challenge. It’s not like he’s going to start now. The only problem is that he may have finally met his match in the Milton-Saylor Academy Mom Squad.
Or: Alex is going to win over the moms at his son’s bougie private school if it’s the last goddamned thing he does.
Or: 5+1 notable years in Arthur Claremont Fox-Diaz’s life.
(A standalone sequel to "It's Not a Secret")
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- Part 4 of Tattoo Alex AU
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11 Jul 2024
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There’s no question that Henry is the love of her little brother’s life. He’s perfect for him, if June’s being honest: handsome, calm, generous, genuine. He’s even got a pretty good sense of humor underneath all of the etiquette.
The only problem is that she’s never heard of a Henry Fox before; hadn’t even known that Alex finally figured that part of himself out; and the only problem is that she’s met him by accident in the middle of a hospital waiting room, with her brother's life in an unknown limbo on the other side.
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15 May 2024
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Henry is a boring person.
This is an objective fact. It’s been such a constant in his life that it hardly bothers him. He prefers the mundane. Thrives under routine. Tolerates many things poorly: surprise parties, capsaicin, loud noises.
Another objective fact: Henry loves Alex. Alex is not boring at all.
Unfortunately, everyone else in Henry’s life seems to think that a bore like him is incapable of a relationship like theirs— and, more distressingly, that this must mean that Alex simply doesn’t exist.
Or: Five times that no one believed that Henry and Alex were an item, and one time that they all did.
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- Part 1 of Tattoo Alex AU
Bookmarked by Nemain
10 May 2024