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( i am done ) trying for beauty. by hcneymooners (romqntics)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Jan 2026
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Ilya glances at Shane, at the way the dying light is catching in his hair, refracting. At that spiderlily mouth, slightly open and curling coyly, two teeth peeked through the dark gap like an American Girl doll. At that shoulder, bare and pale and close enough to touch if Ilya just leaned forward, if he just reached out and took another liberty.
To touch another person is to say: I know you will die, and I am doing this anyway.
His mother used to say something like this. About painting.
Every portrait is an act of faith, Ilyushenka. Faith and futility both.
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contrary to personal preference, ilya gets a roommate.
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13 Jan 2026
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tell it slant by tofuflower
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Dec 2025
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He’s not alone—hardly ever is, in Boston.
But maybe, just maybe, he’s lonely.
It sneaks up on him in stupid moments: standing in line at the bank, catching a ride with Connors after practice, because he doesn’t have a car yet. Lying awake at night with the low hum of traffic outside and the wrong kind of silence pressing in around him.
In his rookie year, Ilya makes an anonymous online friend. Unfortunately, it's a terrible idea.
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06 Jan 2026
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Morals Clause: A contract provision that may be used in endorsement, spokesperson, and similar agreements to give the advertiser the right to terminate the deal, seek damages, or remove branding if the individual engages in actions bringing disrepute, scandal, or negative attention, protecting the brand's image and financial interests.
Yuna does her research—apparently, a morals clause is common, in contracts like this.
It bothers her, a little, how vague it is, but ultimately, she doesn’t see an issue with it—at least, not really.
Shane is many things, and she is so, so excited to see how much more he becomes… but, for all of the many things she imagines in his future, she doesn't think he's capable of doing anything that could be accurately described as scandalous.
She's wrong.
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02 Jan 2026
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Buck's new place is too quiet so he starts listening to podcasts. One contains a poem that comes for him like a heat seeking missile.
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04 Oct 2025
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It’s a flannel shirt, blue with tan plaid. Color still pretty good even if it’s older than Buck is. He knows that three of the buttons on the chest don’t match, and the elbows have worn so thin he worries every time he wears it one wrong move will have him tearing right through. Some moth holes here and there. And now: the whole front left side, starting under the pocket where the seam has made the fabric weak, a huge tear. It’s been sewn back together, in neat stitches that Buck immediately recognizes as Eddie’s hand, but the fabric warps and pulls along the line of them.
“Oh,” Buck says, out loud this time. “Bobby’s shirt.”
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- Part 1 of Tumblr prompts
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27 Aug 2025
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Remi thinks for a second, her head cocking like a new puppy. "You ever heard of a cracking egg?"
Eddie stares at her like an explanation will start wrapping around her head like lines from a teleprompter. "Is that a puberty thing?"
Her mouth drops open, but she works through a silent thought before nodding so very slowly. "You know what? Yeah, I think it could be. Now, I'm not saying that your kid's egg is cracking, I'm just—," she waves her hands, wiggling her fingers, "y'know, putting it out there."
"Am I supposed to know what that means?"
Or, teenagers are complicated. Chris Diaz is absolutely no exception to that rule.
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- Part 1 of you're ready (born ready)
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08 Aug 2025
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Link: Sexy guy has asthma attack at comedy show, comes out as gay
Eddie:
Oh for fuck’s sake
Well that’s embarrassingBuck:
youre uh
youre gay?OR
Buck has a bucket list. Eddie has an asthma attack.
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“My dick is gone,” Eddie says, hushed but frantic.
Buck splutters, wide unblinking eyes still glued to Eddie’s crotch, eyebrows knit together harshly and dragging high on his forehead. Eddie would laugh at his ridiculous face if he didn’t feel like he was going to throw up. “It’s not gone, you have a—”
“Don’t say it,” Eddie warns weakly.
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Eddie wakes up with the wrong equipment. Buck is actually pretty normal about it, until he isn't.- Language:
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18 Jun 2025
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“Buck, I told you, there’s no rush. You being here for however long you need is not a problem.”
Buck rubs at his brow to do something with his hands, Eddie’s eyes tracking his every move like a hawk. “I know that, Eddie. I heard you.”
“Did you?” Eddie asks. “Hear me?”
Eddie comes back home. Buck runs away.
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08 Jun 2025
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About a week after starting back at the 118, and about three weeks before he was supposed to start getting a steady check again, Buck quietly moved out of his loft—
—and into his jeep.
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05 Jun 2025
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People keep assuming Buck and Eddie are married. Eddie corrects them, until he doesn't.
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04 Jun 2025
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“We were friends in high school,” Eddie says, and the words seem to warp in his mouth with how much he’s not saying. “We had a fight, then Shannon got pregnant and we stopped talking. It’s the first time I’ve seen him in years. Probably the last time I'll see him in my life. Okay?”
“Eddie, I don’t know what you think ‘friends’ means, but that was not friendship I saw.”
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In which Eddie keeps secrets and Buck is incredibly normal and rational and even brave about his reaction to this.
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29 May 2025
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He grasps at consciousness as he listens to Eddie moving around, the bed dipping close to him. Everything smells familiar here, like them, him and Eddie, and the bit of him that’s still able to think realizes he hasn’t been afraid of falling asleep. That he hasn’t been thinking about waking up in that other place, that he hasn’t wondered if he’s halfway to the grave, if he’s going to end up in that not quite right dream again.
That he knows where he belongs, and he wants to keep it. He wants it, desperately wants it, more than anything he’s ever wanted, and he has it, he’s not going to destroy it, and it’s a relief, knowing that.
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After getting struck by lightning, Buck’s emotions have been a tidal wave. As always, Eddie’s there to catch him.
Or, Buck and belonging.
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Carla turned off the car and turned to him. “It’s just you and me,” she said. “What happened, baby?”
Everyone said he’d been such a sweet kid. Every time he opened his mouth, he could hear himself pushing that kid farther away.
“Nothing,” said Chris.
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- Part 1 of Can't seem to forget about it
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It’s bright and warm and summery. His husband is laughing, soft and open and unburdened. There’s a perfect new baby in his arms and a perfect kid making jokes on the other side of the table and the zing of oranges in the air.
And it’s so, so good that it’s hard to imagine that anything isn’t.
This, of course, is an illusion that nobody is more proficient in shattering than Philip and Margaret Buckley.
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- Part 2 of the lucas diaz universe
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20 May 2025
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Buck needs to do something reckless. There's a lawyer's business card in his wallet, but Eddie's shop is right there, so he lets himself make a different choice.
(title from Noah Kahan)
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15 May 2025
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Buck pulls away, just an inch or two, breathing heavily into Eddie’s open mouth. “What’s—what’s gotten into you, baby?”
Eddie ducks his head, suddenly shy again, and Buck burns with admiration at how soft and delicate he can be, how coy.
“Eddie. Eddie,” Buck says, quiet, so soft. “Hey. Can you look at me?”
With a sigh, Eddie looks up at him, nodding instead of answering.
“You—you want something from me. Right?”
...or, Eddie learns how to ask for what he wants.
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05 May 2025
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5 times Buck is aware of his body, and 1 time he doesn't have to be
or: buck's body issues, from eddie's perspective
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Buck sits vigil at Bobby’s bedside.
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24 Apr 2025
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When Bobby had arranged the camping trip, it was with a particular goal in mind, one which he had expressed to his wife early on in the planning.
“And how are you going to make that happen? They’ll get a whiff of you interfering and it’ll be game over,” Athena had commented, but despite sharing her namesake’s wit, she didn’t understand the 118 quite as well as he did.
“I don’t have to do any interfering. All I need to do is get them there, and the rest will work itself out.”
And he was right. A little too right.
Secrets are spilled and truths brought to light when the 118 and their partners go on a camping trip.
Oh, and there’s malaphors. Lots of malaphors.
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- Part 1 of Camping Fic
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19 Apr 2025