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What’s Good for the Goose

by @genuinewarmdecentfeeling

Aaron/Robert (2026, Explicit, 40k)

After weeks of buildup, Robert has finally shagged the sexy local mechanic-slash-criminal-for-hire and is ready to move on with his perfectly curated life. While leaving the garage, Robert is attacked by a goose.

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Great one to start with. An early affair era fic which, despite its surrealist premise, has one of the most pitch perfect explorations of Robert and Aaron’s dynamic that I’ve ever read. It leans into the toxicity of them in 2014 so well, but at the same time manages to be deeply romantic.

Also featuring: excellent smut, a good helping of angst and a giant goose. What a fun, filthy and surprisingly moving fic.

CW: some of the goose related gore is quite graphic

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

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this was supposed to be a simple comic and then it took endless hours to finish rip. i love their summer flirting across timezones.

i also cross-posted to ao3 if you'd like to leave a comment!

based on something tim stützle said about training with claude giroux:

2nd base: exist in a public space together

3rd base: you witness me have a real, candid emotion