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1. Public Bookmark 14

   (n)e(u)rotic by cryptozombologist (boybeholding)

   Fandoms: Look Outside (Video Game)  

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

   01 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Lyle/Sam (Look Outside)
   • Sam/Spine (Look Outside)
   • Lyle (Look Outside)
   • Sam (Look Outside)
   • Jeanne (Look Outside)
   • Edwin (Look Outside)
   • Vincent (Look Outside)
   • Spine (Look Outside)
   • Stalking
   • Pre-Canon
   • Dubious Consent
   • Not Beta Read
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Paranoia
   • Disabled Character
   • Home Invasion
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • internalized ableism
   • why isn't that a tag

   Summary

   He was still a good person, right?

    

   (title taken from ¡Aikido! (Neurotic/Erotic) by Will Wood & the Tapeworms)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   13,744

   Chapters:

   6/?

   Comments:

   37

   Kudos:

   168

   Bookmarks:

   14

   Hits:

   1,857

   Bookmarked by Cockzilla

   21 Dec 2025

   Bookmarker's Notes

   Great use of perspective shifts; may never be finished but great reference for 'romance' as thriller/horror fodder

2. Public Bookmark 22

   The Third Kiss by whimsicalOblivions

   Fandoms: Look Outside (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M, Other
   • Work in Progress

   01 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Lyle/Sam (Look Outside)
   • Hellen & Sam (Look Outside)
   • Hellen & Leigh (Look Outside)
   • Hellen & Joel (Look Outside)
   • Leigh & Sam (Look Outside)
   • Leigh & Joel (Look Outside)
   • Montgomery & Xaria (Look Outside)
   • Sam & Xaria (Look Outside)
   • Sam & Montgomery
   • Sam (Look Outside)
   • Lyle (Look Outside)
   • Hellen (Look Outside)
   • Leigh (Look Outside)
   • Joel (Look Outside)
   • Rat Child (Look Outside)
   • Masked Shadow (Look Outside)
   • Xaria (Look Outside)
   • Montgomery (Look Outside)
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Canon Related
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Some Humor
   • Stalking
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Somnophilia
   • Canon Disabled Character
   • Disassociation
   • Lightly beta read but we're still dying with the astronomers
   • Mutilation
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • the burn is complicated
   • Nesting
   • POV Sam (Look Outside)
   • POV Lyle (Look Outside)
   • POV Hellen (Look Outside)
   • POV Alternating
   • POV Third Person
   • Lyle and Jeanne are friends
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Canon typical body horror
   • Initial one sided pining into mutual pining
   • Neurodivergent and queer
   • Spiraling
   • Invasion of Privacy
   • Home Invasion
   • Obsession
   • Human/Monster Romance
   • Sam is hopelessly guilt ridden
   • Sam is too attention starved to care about the endless red flags
   • He's colorblind apparently
   • Sam might have a light crush on Hellen
   • Hard to be a single parent when you didn't have any kids and are a middle aged man in the apocalypse
   • The tags are not in order
   • because ao3 hates me

   Summary

   "Wait, y-y-you said yes!?"

    

   Despite the onlookers of Leigh and Joel- maybe Sam had been a bit too willing to share a kiss with someone, even if this specific someone wasn't human anymore.
   He hardly hesitated, though tried not to sound enthusiastic.
   The thought of romantic intimacy with another person... Something as small and harmless and simple as a kiss...
   He had surprised even himself when he said yes.
   And again, later, after returning the photo that Sam had wanted developed-

    

   "Another kiss?! P-Please?"

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   35,916

   Chapters:

   14/?

   Comments:

   134

   Kudos:

   253

   Bookmarks:

   22

   Hits:

   3,918

   Bookmarked by Cockzilla

   16 Dec 2025

   Bookmarker's Notes

   Check back later 🫡

3. Public Bookmark *

   A normal retelling of Look Outside where everything is exactly the same I swear by Anonymous

   Fandoms: Look Outside (Video Game)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No category
   • Work in Progress

   10 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Sam (Look Outside)
   • Sybil (Look Outside)
   • Jeanne (Look Outside)
   • Aster (Look Outside)
   • Joel (Look Outside)
   • Leigh (Look Outside)
   • Rat Child (Look Outside)
   • Body Horror
   • nothing out of the ordinary for look outside though
   • Cursed Sam (Look Outside)
   • look i dont care if it isnt a tag yet I'll make it a tag
   • Crack
   • Crack Treated Seriously
   • Why does everything I write turn into crack
   • i'll add more character tags as i update
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • I just realized this is a better question: why does all the crack i write turn into angst

   Summary

   Sam left his curtains open on the day of the apocalypse. Whoops.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Woke Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   39,401

   Chapters:

   12/?

   Collections:

   1

   Comments:

   401

   Kudos:

   777

   Bookmarks:

   132

   Hits:

   14,961

   Bookmarked by Cockzilla

   14 Dec 2025

4. Public Bookmark 15

   Pick Your Battles by Paradox3055

   Fandoms: Look Outside (Video Game)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   17 May 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Hellen (Look Outside) / Leigh (Look Outside)
   • Leigh (Look Outside) & Sam (Look Outside)
   • Hellen (Look Outside) & Sam (Look Outside)
   • Joel (Look Outside) & Sam (Look Outside)
   • Hellen (Look Outside)
   • Leigh (Look Outside)
   • Sam (Look Outside)
   • Joel (Look Outside)
   • Sophie (Look Outside)
   • Rat Baby (Look Outside)
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Rat Baby is called Sam Junior
   • Sam is a Good Dad (Look Outside)
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • Blood Kink
   • Knife Play
   • Top Hellen
   • Bottom Leigh
   • But also
   • Top Leigh
   • Bottom Hellen
   • these bitches be switches
   • Cunnilingus
   • Vaginal Fingering
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse

   Summary

   Leigh has always been a little abrasive. She can be a bit.. bloodthirsty at times, and is quick to raise her voice. She accepted this about herself a long time ago.

   But when the woman she’s weathering the apocalypse with actually takes her up on one of her *many* threats, Leigh realizes two things:

   One, that if Hellen were ever actually mad at her, Leigh would be finely diced in an instant

   Two: that Leigh would absolutely love that.

   Aka Leigh is bad at flirting and Hellen is like “damn this bitch HATES me wtf did I do??”
   five times Leigh picks an unnecessary fight, and that one time Hellen realizes why.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   32,375

   Chapters:

   7/7

   Comments:

   67

   Kudos:

   206

   Bookmarks:

   15

   Hits:

   2,553

   Bookmarked by Cockzilla

   12 Dec 2025

   Bookmarker's Notes

   Its what I need to like a f/f fic: lesbians allowed to be mean, explicit sex, characters experiencing being horny outside of the main sexual interaction. Blessings. That said also wild how they're butt naked having loud sex in the living room - glad at least one of the kids was given alcohol to sleep thru the night

5. Public Bookmark 10

   Spirited Away by awfullyGerakobittsu

   Fandoms: Look Outside (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • Other
   • Complete Work

   21 May 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Sam/Masked Shadow (Look Outside)
   • Sam (Look Outside)
   • Masked Shadow (Look Outside)
   • Lyle (Look Outside)
   • Dismemberment
   • Implied Lyle/Sam
   • Sam has OCD
   • Shirtless Sam
   • Sam has insomnia
   • Dubious consent (?)
   • Sam's okay with it but he's out of it
   • Masked Shadow doesn't understand boundaries either whoops
   • Lyle angst
   • Some other characters here but they're just chilling
   • Sam without his left arm
   • Mild Gore
   • Pre-2.0 Update (Look Outside)

   Summary

   Sam gets a new best friend for life :)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,366

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   24

   Kudos:

   142

   Bookmarks:

   10

   Hits:

   1,231

   Bookmarked by Cockzilla

   11 Dec 2025