yap time

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

Can You Stay? (ao3) - Lightning_Zombie G, 1k

Summary: Michael has started to hate being separated from Awsten for long periods of time.

Deadly Combination of Parties and Coca-Cola (ao3) - void_of_thoughts T, 1k

Summary: Awsten was straight edge. He has never touched a mind altering substance in his 25 years of living. And it will stay that way…or so he always imagined. Oh, how wrong he was.

aka, Awsten gets drugged at a party (and author projects onto Awsten a lot)

Funeral Grey (ao3) - Fersuremaybefersurenot E, 3k

Summary: Awsten tells a cute stranger that grey isn't a color, it's a shade. The stranger walks away.

Twenty minutes later, the stranger is blowing smoke in his face and calling him annoying, and somehow this is flirting.

Awsten has never been more confused. Or turned on? [Based on the song Funeral Grey by Waterparks]

or

Funeral Grey but its Mawsten

Give Me A Break! (ao3) - mgcsheaven N/R, 1k

Summary: Enemies to lovers..

The one based off of the give me a break mv!!

i can feel it in my bones now (ao3) - Anonymous E, 3k

Summary: Awsten and Michael figure their shit out

i don't want another timeline (or, four times awsten kills michael and one time he doesn't) (ao3) - written1ngelpen T, 3k

Summary: Awsten's stuck in a time loop forcing him to kill Michael every day, but murder is tiring and he's starting to wonder if that's really the only way out of the loop.

I never meant to cause you pain. My burden is the weight of a feather. I never meant to lead you on. I only meant to please me, however (ao3) - solovely_lilli Michael/Awsten, Calum/Ashton T, 2k

Summary: No one is there because they want to be there. It's the only destination for those who feel displaced and consumed by the sins of all their previous lives.

Also defined as the one in which Awsten Knight and Michael Clifford have sex occasionally and die a year apart.

Title taken from the song Impossible Soul by Sufjan Stevens.

is there a sentiment youd like to tell (ao3) - double_helix T, 2k

Summary: uhh basically just michael and awsten being completely oblivious that they are madly in love with each other

love is fatal (won’t you give it a chance?) (ao3) - rainb0wjay Michael/Awsten, Michael/Luke/Awsten G, 14k

Summary: The next thing Awsten knew, he was blinking awake in the weak rays of the sunrise.

It was beautiful, stretching across the sky like paint, but Awsten’s neck really hurt and his back was informing him how annoyed it was with him by sending pain throughout his entire body every time he moved.

Maybe sleeping sitting up wasn’t the best idea. But in his defense, he didn’t mean to. He was fully planning to go back inside and sleep in his bed like a normal person

— or the one where awsten is in australia for reasons that make sense.

my sneezing fits will never let me focus (ao3) - spiracles N/R, 3k

Summary: Awsten rarely gets sick. He'd rather be sent to hell than deal with a common cold.

So when Awsten wakes up with a sore throat and a stuffy nose, he nearly implodes.

Thankfully someone is there to help :)

No Shame (ao3) - d1zzy_allthetime E, 2k

Summary: based off of the parxla mawsten kiss >-<

Other issues, what issues? (ao3) - Fersuremaybefersurenot E, 4k

Summary: The music video kiss was supposed to be fake. The hotel room was supposed to be practical. The shower incident was supposed to stay private.

Unfortunately for their work schedule (and fortunately for everything else), none of that worked out as planned.

or

Awsten can't keep his mouth shut (or his ear away from doors)

Puppy Kisses (ao3) - Fersuremaybefersurenot E, 9k

Summary: Michael just wants to help his boyfriend. The problem is, Awsten is a master at deflecting with a joke and changing the subject. It takes a failed tickle fight and an accidental discovery for Michael to finally figure out the one thing that might actually get Awsten to stop thinking so much.

Sour, Semi-Sweet (ao3) - ST4RFCKER T, 3k

Summary: When Awsten's lips meet Michael's, his heart feels like it's going to burst and his lips tingle. Only one of these is from love.

(The one where a snack between takes leads to a medical emergency)

Starstruck (Sounds Good, Feels Good) (ao3) - funeralgrey (morguesgarden), spookyjwd M, 6k

Summary: Awsten took a deep breath as he rolled over, pulling his comforter up over his shoulders and trying to close his eyes. He just had to get through the feature. It was business. The fans would love it. He wasn’t going to let these weird feelings come out and ruin things all over again. He could shove them down and let them stay in the past, and he would get over them the same way he did before.

Awsten gets a text from an old crush about a feature.

The Coffee Shop of Love (ao3) - void_of_thoughts G, 7k

Summary: Awsten will always remember the first time he met him. It was 4:32pm on Wednesday, the 23rd of August, many years ago.

Or

Awsten is a barista at a local coffee shop, Michael is his favourite regular.

The World Was Made In Six Days (I Could Ruin Mine By Monday) (ao3) - insane_outsane E, 8k

Summary: Michael leaned into Awsten's personal space to see what he was looking at. Awsten played a video a fan had taken of the song.

Him and Michael really were touchy with each other during the performance, holding onto each other, touching each other's arms and shoulders.

Awsten looked over at Michael to see if he had any reaction when the clip of their kiss played.

Michael was smiling. He reached over and paused the video. It was shot from behind Michael, where they could clearly see Awsten's grip on Michael's hair. Awsten hoped that Michael didn't see the other thing the video had captured: the longing in Awsten's eyes right before he kissed him.

"Kinda hot," Michael said. "You really went for it there, dude, you were like grabbing my hair, holding onto me."

They Couldn’t Get Away From Each Other (ao3) - x_stxr_x E, 8k

Summary: Michael and Awsten eventually go their separate ways after forcing out a chat, Awsten losing it the entire way home. He wonders if Michael’s doing the same thing. He wonders if it meant anything to Michael. Hell, did it even mean anything to him? In reality, it was just a peck. But if it was just a peck, why did it feel like his lips were exploding? But even so, he wasn’t gay. He wasn’t gay, right?

OR

Saw this, looks fun!

Link to the quiz is here

… yeah, that tracks.

Soft tagging @blockcat-safari, @jackdraw-spwrite, @cityofangeisislying, @audioeidolon, @venusplantt, @bardicc-inspo and @voidindite in case they would like to play along :)

I have had three different quizzes call me the main character and it’s scaring me …