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Bring It On Home by DefinitelyYou
Fandoms: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell, Simon Snow & Related Fandoms
20 Oct 2021
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It’s been 12 days since Charlie received the letter. It took him four days to open it, and an additional three to read it. He’s memorized the letter, every word, but he’s compelled to read it one more time. He knows, intellectually, the content of the letter, understands that Baz is expecting him to answer, but he can’t comprehend, emotionally, certain words on the page— leaving New York, home to England, have something for you, say goodbye.
Charlie pulls his knees into his chest and wraps his arms around his legs, the letter dangling precariously from his hand, and looks down on the harbor, watching the waves crash along the beach.
It’s been 245 days since he packed up his belongings and left Basilton Grimm-Pitch—strike that—Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch. Two-hundred-and-one days since he last saw him at The Rabbit Hole, the world’s most divey of magical dive bars, looking as beautiful and cool as ever. And five days after he learned the love of his life (unrequited) was removing himself from Charlie’s life for good, going home to jolly old England.
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- Part 2 of That Ain't All I'll Do For You
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Just Like Everybody Else Does by DefinitelyYou
Fandoms: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell, Simon Snow & Related Fandoms
08 Mar 2020
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It’s not the most embarrassing situation I’ve ever found myself in, but it’s still well embarrassing. Might even be in my top five, up there with the time I spelled my shirt and trousers off in Ms. Possibelf’s class, leaving me only in my pants, socks, and trainers. I’m not nearly as starkers this time around, but I still feel naked, emotionally speaking.
I’m standing in the middle of the clearing in the Wavering Wood on a makeshift dance floor surrounded by magicked fairy lights while possibly the most depressing song I’ve ever heard rings through the clearing. I’ve been deserted by both my girlfriend and my nemesis, and everyone is watching my next move.
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How Shall I Love Thee When You are Gone? by DefinitelyYou
Fandoms: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell
16 Feb 2020
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Simon Snow is standing on a sidewalk in the East Village looking directly at me with a soft smile on his face.
It’s snowing, and the flakes are landing in his auburn hair (it’s exactly as I remember it, short on the sides and back, long curls at the top cascading over his eyes) and glistening on his shoulders. It’s a beautiful sight and too much to take in. I close my eyes and count to 10. When I open them again, he’s gone. I exhale. (I didn’t even realize that I’d been holding my breath.) Figment of my imagination then, which doesn’t make me feel much better. I haven’t had a vision of Snow like this in ages. I think about him every day (I’ll never stop thinking about him). Simon Snow will always be a part of my heart, of my soul, but he’s not a part of my life any longer.
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- Part 1 of That Ain't All I'll Do For You
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“Baz! I’ve been waiting for at least 20 minutes. Can you please hurry up?” I shout to the bathroom door.
No response.
I shouldn’t be surprised. Not only is Baz notoriously particular when it comes to his appearance, but he’s also playing The Cure at top volume. When I knocked on the door earlier, he refused to open it or turn down the music, mumbling a response about getting in the mood for the evening.
The thing is, I’m not sure if I’m in the mood for this evening (no matter how good Baz looks or how loud he plays his music). Baz is taking me clubbing (yes, clubbing, which means dancing, which means disaster for me). And I don’t think I’ve been this nervous since I went to the Leaver’s Ball last May.
For some reason, he thinks it might help me. Me. The person who can barely shuffle along with a slow dance. My therapist agrees with him, thinks trying something new that doesn’t involve thinking will be good for me. Maybe they’re right, but it doesn’t make me any less nervous. (God, what are they thinking?)
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Nancy and Jonathan haven’t spoken since the day he walked out of their apartment four years ago—no phone calls or letters and, certainly, no awkward hellos in Hawkins. Now they've been thrown back together thanks to a family wedding. What happens when they're forced to confront the relationship, and history, they left behind?
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That Ain't All I'll Do For You by DefinitelyYou
Fandom: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell, Simon Snow & Related Fandoms
20 Oct 2021
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down for you always by dreamtiwasanarchitect, liadan14
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 May 2021
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Joe squints a little. “So you were born in what, the 1060s?”
Nicky nods. “1069, I believe. I died during the first crusade. For the first time, anyway.”
“Wow,” Joe says. “You are very well preserved.”
Joe's a millennial with student loan debt, a dead-end career as a personal trainer, and a lumpy futon for a bed. He's also the new immortal.
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- Part 1 of the new me (is really still the real me)
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05 Nov 2025
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Come down slowly, Joe thinks hysterically as he descends the ladder right into the arms of this man who, very unfortunately, smells incredibly good, just a hint of sandalwood on his skin, and feels incredibly firm and comforting against Joe as he makes sure the ladder doesn’t break while Joe’s still on it. Come down slowly, he thinks, and imagines, against his better judgment, coming down slowly next to this man in bed.
If only his opinions on literature weren’t so wrong.
(In which Joe is accidentally seduced into happiness by Schrödinger's hipster.)
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27 Mar 2025
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“We cannot let anyone see us die. We cannot let them see us heal. We must get out of this city, away from them. If they catch you, they will kill you. If they see what you are…it will go as badly for you as it would for me. Neither of us is safe with them, you understand? You need me to help you get past them, away from this place. I need you to help me out there, in the desert, until we reach a port. Do you understand? We are the same. We must get out.”
He stopped; he was not sure how to make himself any clearer, and the Saracen was not evidently interested in conveying anything other than his loathing. Nicolò waited, and after a long, uncomfortable moment, the Saracen finally responded. He spat an incomprehensible sentence in Arabic, heavy with disdain, and thrust his bound hands forward. A demand to be released? That would make sense. Nicolò hesitated.
“Do you understand me?” he pressed, repeating his gestures. “We are the same. We go together? Away from here? Both of us?”
The Saracen repeated also; his Arabic phrase, and the twisting of his wrists against their bindings. Nicolò nodded, and crouched before him.“I am going to free you,” he said. “Please help me.”
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30 Nov 2024
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“Okay, I’m going to need your contact information and I’ll have to ask a few questions about what it is you’ll be needing during your rut. Is that alright?”
“Yes, yes, of course,” Nicky says, aware that he’s panicking and it reads in his tone. “Before you accept my booking, you need to—“
“It will be just fine,” Joe says, smooth and professional. “Why don’t we start with your name?”
“That’s just it,” Nicky says miserably. “It’s Nicolò di Genova.”
There’s a long pause. “Oh,” Joe says.
He hasn’t hung up, which is what Nicky was expecting, so he uses the silence to start apologizing.
In which both Joe and Nicky struggle to fit into a world where your cycle determines so much about your romantic prospects when neither of them have typical cycles or even know if they want that kind of romantic relationship. In which Joe co-runs a center where people with atypical heat and rut cycles can come and receive the help they need. In which Nicky really wishes he hadn't written a series of very stupid letters to the editor of the local paper back when he was pretending he didn't need the kind of help Joe was offering.
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18 Jul 2024
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The Unreconcilable Calculus of This by sheafrotherdon
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
10 Mar 2024
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A humidor, a jigsaw puzzle, and a chair. A new home, an old colleague, and love.
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- Part 4 of The Repair Shop AU
Bookmarked by DefinitelyYou
10 Mar 2024