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Your best friend Stacy invites you to the concert of a small band in your local town before you head off for college, where you fall head over heels for the looks of the drummer. You see him at a house party a few hours later and fall madly in love with him, the two of you spend the whole night away from everyone else talking about everything and nothing, but you give up on the idea of the two of you working when you remember your heading off for college the next month. Thinking you'll never see him again you attempt to make your peace with the one that got away, until a new student shows up at the music course in your building, and its exactly who you think it is.
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“Come here,” Josh gets to his feet jerkily, a puppet strung along on strings as he moves closer. "Sit still."
Josh obeys. Of course he does. He has no other choice. The collar affixed around his neck makes sure of that.
The stranger stares down at him with kind brown eyes, a gentle hand reaching forwards, brushing against Josh's fur. He straightens up to face the shopkeeper with a nod.
"I'll take him."
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Tyler is lonely and impulsively decides to wander into a magical animal shop to buy a cute dog to keep him company. Josh, a shifter stuck in his dog form and cursed by a Sorcerer to obey every command given to him, isn't as fond of the idea.
Somewhere along the way, they both find exactly what they were looking for.
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Inside the Glass by Anonymous
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
17 Sep 2025
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He passes by the window, as he does every night, but a flash of colour makes him stop dead in his tracks. He whips his head to the side, looking out the glass.
A man, dressed in dark olive greens and yellow stripes, a yellow bandana pulled up over the lower half of his face, is standing on the ground outside and holding a flaming torch, looking directly up at him.-----------
Tyler is just trying to live his life as an exceptional citizen of Dema, but the Torchbearer won't leave him alone.
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Inspired by the song Navigating <3
Tyler is autistic, and after months of debilitating panic attacks and sensory overwhelm, he’s found something that helps : a pacifier.
This isn’t age play. There’s no regression, no dynamic. It's about him finding a healthy coping tool. A way to manage oral fixation and stay grounded.He is also dealing with heavy dissociation, going silent mid-sentence, mid-task, lost in the void. During the Clancy tour, we all saw moments of this on stage, I wrote about it as well.
A quiet, emotional story exploring autism, sensory comfort, and the deep intimacy of being known without needing to explain yourself.
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Moth Into Flame by hefuckingleftdaband
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
12 Aug 2025
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CLANCY
His kitchen had one pot, one bowl, one fork, one knife, one spoon, one rag and one cup. His room had one chair, one bed and one desk and on his one and only windowsill was one ash tray. When he brushed his teeth in the evenings he put away his one toothbrush to the only lone cup on the sink. There was no grayer creature in Dema.
AND THE TORCHBEARER
For some reason never before has Josh considered that a filleted stomach, split open like a gutted fish would smell this bad but of course it would. Blood and shit would leak out of the open bowels and pool, seep into the earth. Skulls cracked like nuts, arteries perforated, lungs filled with blood - in shock he didn’t even manage to quickly end the last man. Stunned at his own actions Josh stood and watched as the last soldier managed to drown in his own blood before even bleeding out.
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Sometimes, Tyler would smile at nothing, and the nurses would look away like it frightened them.
Because in a place where no one understood him, his mind was the only orchestra that played on.
And somewhere, deep in the fog of dreams and ghost-slick memories, he was still waiting.
For someone.
Anyone.
To finally listen.
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In the Sun's Peace of Mind by redecoratingash
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance (Album)
31 Jul 2025
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"Don't even think about it. I'll kill you before you could lift it from the seat."
Tyler's eyes drifted back up to the man's face. To his surprise the man was actually quite attractive. His cheeks were rosy and dusted in freckles and his nose looked like it had been broken a few times, but Tyler found it charming. Maybe this stranger wouldn't hurt him.
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In a post-apocalyptic landscape Tyler Joseph risks his life to escape Battery City, the capital of Better Living Industries. As he explores the zones he eventually runs into a group of fellow runaways. Torchbearer, the leader of the group that call themselves the banditos, isn't happy to let Tyler stay with them. However as time passes Tyler and Torchbearer grow close, but nothing good can stay forever in the zones. Draculoids are still after them and they can't run forever, right?
OR, a Joshler killjoy AU set in the fictional world of MCR's 2010 album Danger Days.
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Heaven has always been his goal.
But sometimes the pleasure burns brighter than fate.
He has always attended Saturday school in the church where he goes with his family. God is his pastor and saviour and the bible is the rule of what his life should be fueled by to live to be worthy of his love.
Praying, asking for salvation, to meet a pretty girl and have a big family, to be a great man, a good man and son, and someday a good brother and husband.
The rosary on his neck, always playing with the cross and beads, praying on his knees at church, at his room, crying and moving his body. The guilt of being different is holding him prisoner.
His body full of marks, his throat rusty by screaming for his salvation and mercy, even filling his body with his symbol, where he died to save everyone from their sins.
But, all the efforts that he had made to be a good Christian had been in vain when he met the punk boy, the friend of a friend and apparently even lover of his music. A drummer, son of a christian family.
The boy looked like everything the Bible warned him about, dyed hair like fire, metal glinting on his lips, a smirk that felt like sin itself.
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Morgan’s always been pretty social but after moving away from all her childhood friends and starting two new schools within two years shes remembered how tough it was to make friends the first time. After a 2 year stint in Zambia she's living in Minnesota, USA now and desperate to make this school work for her. Her hopes are met from the universe though when she meets a particular curly haired drummer.
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“Although… He could be right this time, who knows?” Tyler made Josh meet his eyes and grinned while leaning forward. “Maybe you are capable, Joshua. Maybe that pretty face will turn me good.”
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- Part 1 of sudden moves
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For his entire life Tyler had had this sneaking suspicion that he’d missed something somewhere along the line – a day at kindergarten or a book that children were supposed to read in their early years – and that he had as a result not learned how exactly how he was supposed to be a human being.
He had felt all of these feelings for so long that they had become a cosmic background drone in his life, a fact as undeniable as gravity – he was an apple that had fallen out of the only tree in the world that produced floating apples. Tyler Joseph was an anomaly, and everybody knew it, and everybody pretended that they didn’t but they all secretly hoped that he’d figure it out one day and do something sudden and drastic to fix it and become a working member of a society they all secretly despised.
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It’s 1966, and from a listening post atop a man-made hill in West Berlin, conscripted signal analyst Tyler Joseph spends his days buried in dots and dashes. He’s so alone, bored, and alienated that when a jazz song with a very peculiar drumbeat creeps into his airwaves, transmitted from beyond the wall, Tyler wonders if he’s found someone else out there who understands him.
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10 years ago, the CER, or the Coalition of Emotion Removal had advocated for a new medical drug, Zanvaryx. A drug to solve what they called the “issue of emotions” all together. They got rid of them. Just one pill a day for the rest of your life. No more needing to take medicine for depression, anxiety, or anything else because if you couldn’t feel anything then you didn’t need to manage your emotions. Josh decides he wants to remember what emotions are like and illegally stops taking the medicine without anyone in his life knowing. Tyler was glad Zanvaryx was invented, it saved his life. He was fine without feeling anything. That is until he meets Josh, who seems to be causing his meds to malfunction and stop working.
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tyler's vessel breaks down on itself on a cold winter night, on the side of the highway in the middle of ohio. he begs god to take him somewhere warm and safe.
josh is pulled from the edge of his own mind by the sight of an angel buried under the snow. maybe this was always how it was going to happen. -
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Au where josh is spider-man, and hasn't quite found the right time to tell Tyler yet. but he will!
Eventually.
Right?
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(2ND PART) Tyler is slowly becoming more comfortable with life at camp, bonding with friends- especially Josh. But a looming threat keeps him on his toes: the Bishops want him back in Dema for the Live Show. Will he make the choice to go willingly and rebel against his captors by adding his own songs into the performance?
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- Part 2 of I Feel My Way Back Home
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In the neøn gløw øf the exit sign by emo_mi
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
20 May 2025
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They stood in silence for a beat. Just two tired hearts in hoodies under a blinking exit sign meant to mark the way out – when really, what they both needed was a way back in. Back to themselves. “I gotta take another shower. Like right now”, Tyler finally croaked, voice hoarse from another evening of singing his heart out. Josh smiled gently. “Don’t drown.” Tyler offered a tiny, crooked smile as well before disappearing towards the elevators. Josh watched him go, the slump in his shoulders giving everything away.
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A short story about Tyler and Josh caring for each other during the Clancy tour! They’re platonic soulmates, ur honour <3 -
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Josh had never been so relieved to see Tyler, his best friend, the one who promised he would take Clancy's name and urge the rebellion forward nearly four months ago.
But finding Tyler in Dema after this long has brought its own challenges: he doesn't even recognize Josh, forced to write and perform songs by the Bishops.
The Banditos rescue Tyler and take him back to their camp in Trench, but it will surely take a village to catch him up to speed. And the Bishops will be looking for him, if their big Livestream plans are anything to go by.Series
- Part 1 of I Feel My Way Back Home
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It all started on May 29th, 2014. The day that ruined Josh Dun’s life. There’s a virus outbreak, one that turns humans into man-eating monsters; The Gone.
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Happy-Go-Lucky Josh gets assigned to a collaborative project at work, he is quick to find out that his partner is not the easiest to work with. Can he crack the intern’s tough exterior or were they destined to be enemies?
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Baby, you are a painful reminder and a terrible dream, but you are so beautiful by Amrais
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots
08 May 2025
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Being with Josh is wonderful, so why is it even harder to cope and keep his head above water than doing it on his own? Tyler is exhausted and Josh is getting worried.