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First Love, Late Spring
All it takes to ruin the careful equilibrium of a non-relationship is a handmade cup, a pixelated screenshot, and Megumi's family.
Word Count: 113,399
Word Count: 113,399
- GenresFan Fiction
305 pages, ebook
Published December 22, 2020
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January 2, 2024
alex recommending the most gut wrenching fic ever. i feel like an orange rind i am so emotionally gutted but also i feel so tender and raw and loved. Connections and relationships and people are so important. Love as an emotion but also an act ⁉️chapter 6 and 7 was like a constant stream of tears for me. chapter 6 is so so so close to my heart i cried viscerally. the scene with geto and megumi in the car especially fucked me up (i love him) and GOD the end w/ the keycahins
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December 3, 2023hot ppl shit,, using ao3 to self reflect and therapise oneself
March 31, 2022
Edit post rilettura it still hit as much as the first time bene bello.
Assolutamente tra le ff più belle che io abbia mai letto in tutta la mia vita. In ogni fandom c'è quasi sempre La Fanfiction™ life changing che davvero sembra ti infili una mano nel petto e smuova tutto per poi rimetterlo a posto uguale a prima ma più ordinato, più consapevole. Non vi so spiegare quanto questa ff mi abbia cambiata ed emozionata e aiutata in un periodo molto difficile per me in cui stavo avendo a che fare con emozioni e sentimenti ancora più difficili.
"Is that all it is, then?" says Megumi. "Communication?"
Getou’s laughter peters out, but there is the same lightheartedness to it when he answers. "Not the word choice I’d use, personally, but I guess that’s as good a category as any. From my perspective, it’s—Loving someone is hard work, which is neither a new opinion nor a bad thing, and very often, people say that you have to love yourself before you can love another person. I think that’s bullshit platitude. Or at least a badly worded one. Love as an emotion comes easily when it’s right; love as an act, though—that requires understanding. Before communication, before talking about anything, it’s not so much loving that you have to have figured out as it is understanding. Yourself, what you want, where you want to be with the other person. All that before you can understand them. And then you have to make the call: do we have enough me right now to be an us? Because what good are the words you’re saying, the things you’re articulating, the declarations you’re making, when you’re not even seeing eye to eye with your own thoughts?"
Assolutamente tra le ff più belle che io abbia mai letto in tutta la mia vita. In ogni fandom c'è quasi sempre La Fanfiction™ life changing che davvero sembra ti infili una mano nel petto e smuova tutto per poi rimetterlo a posto uguale a prima ma più ordinato, più consapevole. Non vi so spiegare quanto questa ff mi abbia cambiata ed emozionata e aiutata in un periodo molto difficile per me in cui stavo avendo a che fare con emozioni e sentimenti ancora più difficili.
"Is that all it is, then?" says Megumi. "Communication?"
Getou’s laughter peters out, but there is the same lightheartedness to it when he answers. "Not the word choice I’d use, personally, but I guess that’s as good a category as any. From my perspective, it’s—Loving someone is hard work, which is neither a new opinion nor a bad thing, and very often, people say that you have to love yourself before you can love another person. I think that’s bullshit platitude. Or at least a badly worded one. Love as an emotion comes easily when it’s right; love as an act, though—that requires understanding. Before communication, before talking about anything, it’s not so much loving that you have to have figured out as it is understanding. Yourself, what you want, where you want to be with the other person. All that before you can understand them. And then you have to make the call: do we have enough me right now to be an us? Because what good are the words you’re saying, the things you’re articulating, the declarations you’re making, when you’re not even seeing eye to eye with your own thoughts?"
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January 2, 2024
i am so incredibly floored by this fic. i am so floored by this goddamn fucking jujutsu kaisen fanfic that i would seriously genuinely recommend to anyone because i don’t think i’ve ever read something so tender and genuine to me. the characters and their conflict are so earnest and real and sincere and i don’t think i’ve ever felt this warm reading something ever. love is so so so important and i know i’m a fool waxing about it at 2am on goodreads but it’s nice to know i can read this as many times as i want and still be floored. itafushi tbh is kind of mid to me as a ship but god this was just so spectacular and i feel so warm and (as andi put it so very correctly) like orange rinds. i love love love this fic and the person it has made me like seriously this The itafushi fic shit is SERIOUS !!!!!
July 24, 2022
i read this like three months ago, and i have never felt a so utterly seen and broken. i felt like megumi was just a depiction of me, and at some points i also related to yuuji. i will not love a piece of literature the way i love this one for a very long time.
February 7, 2024
im gna kill myself
September 12, 2024
4☆ Review:
“𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏? 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆?”
Words of Affirmation vs Acts of Service, but take it to the extreme.
This fic is beautifully written and I’m blown away. The whole story felt so real and left me feeling hollow at times, but in the best kind of way.
Maybe we all need therapy.
“𝑮𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆.”
“𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏? 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆?”
Words of Affirmation vs Acts of Service, but take it to the extreme.
This fic is beautifully written and I’m blown away. The whole story felt so real and left me feeling hollow at times, but in the best kind of way.
Maybe we all need therapy.
“𝑮𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆.”
April 16, 2026
happy 10000 (almost 10100) kudos. please if you read this you'll become my favourite person ever and i'll start crying on the spot. my heart feels so hollow yet so full whenever i read this. THE itafushi fic, it's one of the most agonisingly beautiful pieces of literature i’ve ever read - it captures the fickleness of first love perfectly.
the writing is so incredibly poetic & embellished, and the realness of each character and their actions and their dialogue and their thoughts made the novel feel deeply intimate and personal. deadass after i finished this i turned off the lights and sat in the quiet and darkness of my room - i’m homesick for a life in japan. homesick for a relationship - not even romantic, just human connection in general. this fic showed me how sparse and different each connection between different humans are. even if one pair of people have a father figure or boyfriend or bestfriend relationship with eachother, another pair characterised with the same archetype could feel an incredibly different type of connection to eachother, you know? as for the characters, god, yuuji, i feel so seen in you. the way you give yourself to everyone but really just want someone to love you as deeply as you love everyone around you - boy, do i understand. what you told megumi in chapter 7 - i feel the same way my sweet boy. megumi taking yuuji to disneyland was so revered.. ugh i would comment on everything i loved but that’s just too much. it shall sit and occupy my head now.
the writing is so incredibly poetic & embellished, and the realness of each character and their actions and their dialogue and their thoughts made the novel feel deeply intimate and personal. deadass after i finished this i turned off the lights and sat in the quiet and darkness of my room - i’m homesick for a life in japan. homesick for a relationship - not even romantic, just human connection in general. this fic showed me how sparse and different each connection between different humans are. even if one pair of people have a father figure or boyfriend or bestfriend relationship with eachother, another pair characterised with the same archetype could feel an incredibly different type of connection to eachother, you know? as for the characters, god, yuuji, i feel so seen in you. the way you give yourself to everyone but really just want someone to love you as deeply as you love everyone around you - boy, do i understand. what you told megumi in chapter 7 - i feel the same way my sweet boy. megumi taking yuuji to disneyland was so revered.. ugh i would comment on everything i loved but that’s just too much. it shall sit and occupy my head now.
January 26, 2026
genuinely changed my life. i’ve never read a story where i felt so invasively seen, and where i saw myself in 2 characters (even if they are from a shounen manga).
i keep coming back to this fic whenever i feel like i’ve changed into a different version of myself. i don’t know how to encapsulate it in words, but i feel like this story genuinely built a part of me and helped me to form my own perspectives and ideas on how i navigate love, the different kind of relationships around me.
not just love and all its glittery things, but human connection, relationship with yourself and the burnout that comes after just trying to be a person that feels things.
“feeling like this makes you not want to be in your own skin, makes you want to shed it for a moment and exist as something that cannot be perceived and touched and yet can still be loved, be taken care of”
i genuinely had to put down the screen after i read this, because how were they able to perfectly word out the shame, the need and desperation of just wanting?
i hope they write more, whether it be fanfiction or a novel, i’d cherish every word either way.
i keep coming back to this fic whenever i feel like i’ve changed into a different version of myself. i don’t know how to encapsulate it in words, but i feel like this story genuinely built a part of me and helped me to form my own perspectives and ideas on how i navigate love, the different kind of relationships around me.
not just love and all its glittery things, but human connection, relationship with yourself and the burnout that comes after just trying to be a person that feels things.
“feeling like this makes you not want to be in your own skin, makes you want to shed it for a moment and exist as something that cannot be perceived and touched and yet can still be loved, be taken care of”
i genuinely had to put down the screen after i read this, because how were they able to perfectly word out the shame, the need and desperation of just wanting?
i hope they write more, whether it be fanfiction or a novel, i’d cherish every word either way.
October 10, 2022
beautifully written.
February 10, 2023
Ho scritto talmente tanti pensieri ed emozioni riguardo a questa fanfiction sulle mie note del telefono che ormai ho finito le parole.
Io credo di non aver mai letto niente di più bello. Mai. Sono passati due anni e ci penso ancora tutti i giorni; ormai non vedo più la vita allo stesso modo. Un’opera d’arte struggente e confortante. Ultraterrena.
Io credo di non aver mai letto niente di più bello. Mai. Sono passati due anni e ci penso ancora tutti i giorni; ormai non vedo più la vita allo stesso modo. Un’opera d’arte struggente e confortante. Ultraterrena.
January 22, 2025
5/5 so unwell right now.
April 27, 2025
first time I'm reading a fanfic and am not even in this fandom, but wdym I'm crying?
February 18, 2026
this would be great christmas movie
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