Fics like Five Times Jon Goes to Pride and One Time He Doesn't

Jon's first kiss is at age twenty, and is a sort of tipsy, groping thing in the corner of someone’s house party. There are no fireworks or butterflies or anything he was promised from books and films and television, but he doesn’t hate it, and that counts for something. He realises that night that the fireworks are a metaphor, as unrealistic and imagined as the slaying of the dragon, the defeating the robot uprising, or the “happily ever after”. The world begins to make a lot more sense now that he knows it’s all just an endless charade, now that he’s finally in on the joke. He still doesn’t really understand why everyone seems to have focused on this one inside joke, but at least now he’s part of it. Jon goes to Pride over the years. He figures some things out, and doesn't figure other things out at all.

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