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Works which have used it as a tag:

• For What You Are by hauntieannes

  Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  31 May 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • John/Arthur Lester
  • Bartender John
  • composer Arthur
  • Alternate Universe
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • not kidding about the hurt yall it's intense
  • 1930s
  • Period-Typical Ableism
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Period Typical Bigotry
  • internalized queer-phobia
  • cause we got all kinds here
  • i do promise there's comfort too i swear
  • Slow Burn
  • Getting Together
  • First Kiss
  • Love Confessions
  • No Smut
  • Implied Sexual Content
  • but nothing explicit
  • Author is aroace
  • oh i should probably add
  • Trauma
  • if you know canon
  • you know the kind
  • please do read the content warnings tho
  • aspec john
  • end game qpr kinda
  • its one of those Third Thing things
  • neurodivergent john
  • how many tags could i have possibly forgotten

  Summary

  Arthur Lester, star performer of Jack's Bar, vanished five years ago.

  John misses the music.

  --
  Completed!

  Series

  • Part 1 of Malevolent Bartender AU

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  88,398

  Chapters:

  21/21

  Comments:

  1,543

  Kudos:

  470

  Bookmarks:

  96

  Hits:

  8,776