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something you can fix by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Dec 2025
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Maybe if the video ended there, Shane thought, it would be okay. Okayish. Still incriminating. Still a fucking disaster. Still embarrassing, to have his breakup with this beautiful actress filmed and disseminated on Reddit of all fucking places, but not a nail in his coffin, burying him alive. But the video didn’t end there.
“Can I ask if you’ve ever been with another guy?” she had to ask.
And he, tears visible in his eyes, had to nod.
Just once. Just a single nod.
Why did he have to nod?
“Have you ever told anyone that before?” He shook his head. “Was it different? With a guy?”
“Of course.”
Of course.
“Was it better?”
“Yes.”
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Shane’s conversation with Rose is secretly recorded. Months later, after the All-Star game and Ilya’s confession in Russian, the video gets leaked online. Shane is outed to the world while Ilya is in Russia, and must now finish the 2016-2017 season with the entire world in on his secret.
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- Part 1 of something you can fix
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- English
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- 26,820
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- 1/1
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30 Dec 2025
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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Dec 2025
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Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”
“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.
“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”
“Go fuck yourself.”
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Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.
And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?
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- Part 1 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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- English
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- 30,447
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- 4/4
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29 Dec 2025
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Steve Harrington is normal, everyone thinks so. Captain of the swim team, starter on the varsity basketball team, most popular boy in school, absolute heartthrob, handsome, and rich. He's King Steve, Steve “the Hair” Harrington. He's an all-American boy growing up in the heartland. And he's spent years working very hard to keep it that way, because the truth is the last thing he is, is normal.
No, Steve Harrington has a dark past he's desperate to escape, however that gets much harder when Will Byers goes missing and Steve just can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong in Hawkins, something that's pointing straight to his past. But everything will be fine, right? All he has to do is pretend everything is normal.
Or, another lab experiment Steve story because I can’t get it out of my head, so I’m sharing it with everyone.
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- Part 1 of Pretend Everything is Normal
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- English
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- 1,088,798
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- 141/?
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12 Dec 2025
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In A Mirrored Room, Talking To Myself by entanglednow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Oct 2024
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The Corroded Coffin members made a name for themselves investigating the paranormal, they have a fairly successful show that brings in some extra cash. Eddie's not sure if he really believes any of it, it's been eight years and he's only managed to record a few pieces of evidence he can't explain.
He's not expecting much from the investigation of the Harrington house, even laughing at how serious the man sounds about their safety. Steve Harrington himself and his stupid beautiful face is a big draw, he's not going to lie, but the stories he's telling about the haunting he's experiencing sound far-fetched even for them; particles of darkness, doors that lead nowhere, voices from rooms that are empty and visions of other places filled with black vines.
He'd assume the whole thing to be a hoax, if Harrington wasn't offering them a sizable amount of money to spend the night, and there's more on the table if they can rid him of his haunting for good.
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- English
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- 65,345
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- 8/8
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10 Nov 2025
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do you think that you would love me ‘til tomorrow if you could by suzukiblu for radians
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
23 Aug 2018
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Jesse’s first roommate got himself stabbed. Jesse refuses to take responsibility for that, since any idiot ought to know better than to shake awake anyone in Overwatch, much less the very recently ex-gang member. His second roommate was a manic neat freak. The third was on day shift. The fourth was--
Look, there’s been a lot of roommates. Coming home to the murder-cyborg ain’t really a downgrade, is his point here.
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08 Oct 2025
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Spencer in no way expects the whole world to gasp in awe whenever he runs an algorithm faster than a computer could, or produces an esoteric fact he read about once a decade ago. But whenever Alvez smiles when everybody else rolls their eyes, it kind of knocks the wind out of him.
So Spencer is in desperate need of an argument to convince himself that it’s a good thing that nothing will ever happen between them, and that all his mental power currently dedicated to daydreaming about Luke Alvez would be better spent literally anywhere else.
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Part character study, part romance, in which Spencer Reid grapples with his thoughts and feelings for one Luke Alvez.Bookmarked by Balasar
29 Jul 2025
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honey, honey by notquitegucci (notquiteguchi)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Jun 2025
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“So, run it by me one more time.”
Vi paced the length of the room with her chin pinched firmly between her fingers. She had been tracing a wide oval on the floor, her boots clanking heavily with every step. They had been over the plan several times already, Viktor lamented soundlessly, but he understood her nerves. Ekko, who was busy spinning himself in one of Viktor’s office chairs, slowed to a stop with an exaggerated groan, dragging the toe of his shoes along Viktor’s floor. “Vi, how many more times are you gonna make us—”
“Until it’s perfect, Ekko.” Vi interrupted brusquely. “Everyone needs to be on the same page about what they’re doing, where they’re supposed to be, and what we’re after. We’re not gonna get another shot at this for months if we fail.”
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OR: The kids from Zaun have a plan—find whatever Jayce Talis has been working on and steal it. The Progress Day Gala is the perfect opportunity to do so. The only issue? Viktor has to attend to "present" his research to Heimerdinger. He should be in and out quickly—just long enough to get Vi into place and dip. If all goes smoothly, he'll never have to interact with Jayce Talis at all. Simple, right?
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- Part 1 of lay all your love on me (verse)
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- 27/27
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03 Mar 2025
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At Sokka’s behest, the Gaang skips rescuing Zuko during the Siege at the North Pole. Instead they leave him, unconscious, buried in the snow.
In completely unrelated news, Sokka’s haunted by a ghost now.
(If you'd like more details before deciding to read this story, look here for spoilers.)
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- English
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- 67,555
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- 14/14
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- 65
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- 3,886
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12 Feb 2025
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After drinking something he wasn't supposed to, Arthur's demeanor regarding his manservant Merlin has entirely changed, leaving everyone to believe he had been snuck a love potion. But when it seems to be something else, a potion that amplifies existing feelings to an almost obsessive state, the only way to pull him back is for him to willingly participate in the spell needed to save him. What is Merlin to do when Arthur won't let him out of his sight and there are no other willing sorcerers within the kingdom?
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- English
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- 26,713
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- 6/6
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25 Dec 2024
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It was an act of appalling, ghastly cruelty that, had Arthur not been so horribly in love with him, he might never have noticed Merlin was a sorcerer.
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- 41,317
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- 5/5
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26 Nov 2024
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“Fuck David! I do!”
“Fuck Ben! I do!”
Charlie’s friends give a drunken cheer.
“I now pronounce you husband and husband!” Drag Elvis shouts joyfully.
Charlie’s friends cheer some more.
“I like this guy,” Tao says to Elle. “And I just learned his last name.”
“So did Charlie,” Elle says. Then she throws her glitter-confetti. “To the happy couple!”
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- 12/12
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16 Nov 2024
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The Waste Of Time That Is Soulmate Gatherings (Or how Edwin finally found happiness) by HenryTheHAP
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Aug 2024
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Every six months there's a Soulmate Gathering, where those of age meet in the hopes of finding their other half. Edwin is less than thrilled. Until he's very thrilled.
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14 Aug 2024
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It’s just turned November in 1999, meaning that Charles has been dead (and thus with Edwin) for almost a full decade. If he had lived, he’d be 26 now. He is 26, sort of. He’s sure that he’s more mature now than he was when he died, but that might just be the natural result of a decade spent with Edwin standing next to him, raising a single eyebrow imperiously as if to say ‘really, Charles?’ every time he acts before thinking (so, almost all the time).
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10 years after Charles dies, he realizes that he's in love with his best friend. He handles this about as well as anyone could expect.
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- Part 1 of 1999 au
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- English
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- 14,083
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- 2/2
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05 Jul 2024
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“Where are you buried, do you’ve any idea?”
“My body was never found,” he replies softly. “There is a memorial marker next to my parents’ graves, but my remains are not there.”
The idea is so horrifying that it stuns Charles into silence for a couple seconds. “I didn’t know that. Why didn’t I know that?”
Edwin’s shoulders tense. “The whole thing is bloody tragic enough as it is.”
Grabbing his wrist, Charles begins marching them back in the direction of the pond they used to get here.
Edwin doesn’t resist, but he does argue, because of course he does. “Charles, where are we going?”
“St. Hilarion’s. We’ve got a new case, don’t we?”
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- 6/6
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26 Jun 2024
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i would know you (again and again) by Kenna21
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer
26 Jul 2022
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Do I know of any hero that was happy? He thinks.
(And frowns, because he is certain he has heard similar words spoken somewhere. They seem important, so why is it that he could not remember where they came from?)
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- 44/44
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10 Jun 2024
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Edwin wants to call it The Case of The Acid-Spraying Cephalopods, because that was what the actual case was about.
Charles wants to call it The Case of The First Kiss, because that's the only part that actually mattered.
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An unfortunate run in with a monster leaves the Dead Boy Detectives stranded at (newly undead) Niko's apartment without any clothing, so Edwin borrows her dressing gown. Charles realises some things.
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27 May 2024
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the ghost of the past that you live in by ObsessedWithFandom
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 May 2024
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It didn’t start as much. As anything, really. Charles noticed him in the hallways only because he was new, which was rare in Year 11, and because he smiled shyly whenever Charles said hi. Aysar, he’d introduced himself, and Charles liked the way the syllables formed in his mouth. He wanted to be Aysar’s friend.
Or: Five boys Charles didn't date, and one he did.
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- Part 1 of aysar cinematic universe
- Language:
- English
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- 22,694
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 1
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- 300
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- 989
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- 212
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19 May 2024
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I Will Hold Your Hands To Stop Them From Shaking by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
04 May 2024
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“You don’t have to know how to dance”, Charles says, and he is so close that Edwin can make out the shadows each eyelash paints onto his face. If he had a breath still, the sight would take it. “I never learnt it either. Just move with the music, and I promise that if I spin you ‘round, I won’t drop you.”
_____It doesn't take Charles forever to figure out the rest.
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- Part 1 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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15 May 2024
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Good Enough by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
05 May 2024
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It’s quite flattering, definitely special, having someone like Edwin love him.
But most of all, it’s fucking terrifying.
Because no matter what he does, Charles cannot fuck this up.Series
- Part 2 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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10 May 2024
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Of a youth who loves me by Aliquis
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
01 May 2024
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The boy Charles rescued from Hell, so frail without his waistcoat and ridiculous britches, had been nearly unrecognizable as his best friend. Charles would do anything, compromise any dignity, to make sure Edwin never has to return to the pit.
He just has to figure out how.
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- Part 1 of Of a youth who loves me
- Language:
- English
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- 11,017
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- 1/1
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09 May 2024