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• THE GOLDEN BUG AND HIS SPIDER by VintageV1nyl

  Fandoms: Mouthwashing (Video Game)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  15 Mar 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Curly/Jimmy (Mouthwashing)
  • Curly (Mouthwashing)
  • One-Sided Relationship
  • Codependency
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Emotional Manipulation
  • Curly Needs a Hug (Mouthwashing)
  • Pre-Canon
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • It's not love
  • it's not hatred
  • it's a secret third thing
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • no beta reader we die like the tulpar crew
  • Bug and Spider allegory
  • Animal Metaphors
  • Character Study
  • Short
  • Short One Shot

  Summary

  The golden bug weeps into the heavy silk, ensnared within its tangles; yet he's liberated all the same. Enclosed in string.

  [ The spider, his captor, smiles. ]

  —
  A (relatively short) character study on how Curly might feel about Jimmy.

  Series

  • Part 2 of NEUROSIS

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  339

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  7

  Kudos:

  20

  Hits:

  174