basically a bunch of gay, NSFW, enby, and POC relations. hope you enjoy, uhh please don't hate on me, I'm just bored, read the a/n. thanks !!
a story about the lives that we wish we would see when we look at the tv, when we look in books, when we see people. we want to see people like us, people who fit into more than one box, people who take up the majority of the earth. so, why not make it for yourself !!
POV is from the gender-fluid main character named Nihr -- an African-Arabic twenty-three-year-old living in LA, where they met the love of their life, Maricalra (em) Ayala, a Honduran 21-year-old. But, as many young queer people do, they don't see that what they have is more than friendship, so, it's just a whole friendship filled with feelings that are returned, but will never be discovered. but their friend group is determined to make them realize the feelings that they share...
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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