11 Bookmarks by HowliteReturns
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we both matter, don’t we? (it’s you and me) by canonically47 for A_A_Archer
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
28 Dec 2025
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“The reason I’m mad at you for getting hurt is because you don’t see a damn problem with it. You go on call after call with no breaks, and you get increasingly exhausted, and still you give yourself an impossible standard and—” Robert sighs. “Jesus Christ, Coop, you’re…”
Me.
Uncomfortably, deeply, entirely like me.
Or: after pushing herself to the max, Coupé must stay in the infirmary room for the rest of the day. Robert comes to check on her and try to talk some sense into her, tell her to stop treating herself like a goddamn tool. Ironically, this is exactly what Robert needs to learn, too.
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03 Jan 2026
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Ten years ago, a boy with amber-brown eyes saves Herm's life.
Now, the same man offers to tie his tie for him, the smile in his eyes exactly the same as it was when he was younger. And when the same man, with the same smile, offers a spot for him on the team...
There's really not much Herm can say about it. He's by no means the most eloquent person in the world, and he's certainly no good at expressing his feelings. But there's one thing he knows for certain.
He's so screwed.
(Alternatively: the waterboy route everyone wanted.)
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- English
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- 24,133
- Chapters:
- 6/?
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- 212
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14 Dec 2025
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“Do you want me to come with you to your cousin’s wedding this weekend, Herm?”
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Waterboy lies about having a plus-one for a wedding and has to improvise.- Language:
- English
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- 7/10
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- 15,008
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11 Dec 2025
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the intolerant brightness of your charms by yakuzapalooza
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
27 Dec 2025
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Herman is known online in some circles as Mecha-Man’s #1 fan. After Mecha-Man retires, he’s completely devastated until someone dares to ask him why he likes Mecha-Man so much.
Of course, he’d pass away if he knew the person that asked him WAS Mecha-Man. Good thing that the account is anonymous…
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- Part 1 of the intolerant brightness of your charms
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- English
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- 14/16
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09 Dec 2025
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“Where the fuck is Flambae?” Robert said in way of team greeting.
“He’s off again.” Prism said. “Personal reasons.”
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Flambae is going through something, and no one knows what exactly. So when Robert finds him on the steps leading up to the SDN Torrance branch office after hours, he decides to see if he can help Z Team's resident mouthy fireball.- Language:
- English
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- 42,515
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- 6/?
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08 Dec 2025
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Not really in the mood to be a very nice lady's rebound or hang around someone who's been a consistent source of, at best, quiet frustration, Robert Robertson opts to take a third option with how to spend his night. So, naturally, he flags down one of the only people left in the building to go out for drinks. Drinks between work friends!
it's just those 'after drink' situations that end up escalating things, is all.
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19 Nov 2025
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You: Struggling overworked underpaid server in TV World.
Him: Literally Mr. (Ant) Tenna from the acclaimed Mr. Tenna’s Marvelous Mystery Board: TV TIME.So what the hell is he doing in your little run down diner after closing hours? And why does he keep coming back?
｡ﾟ•┈꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱┈• ｡ﾟ
AKA The Sugar Daddy Tenna fanfic
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- English
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- 9/?
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27 Jul 2025
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You’re hired to be Tenna’s emotional liaison—a corporate stress ball for a TV star known for explosive tantrums. Despite his fierce resistance and fear of losing fame, you patiently absorb his outbursts and fears, slowly earning his reluctant trust. Your job isn’t to fix him, but to keep him afloat—and somehow, that makes all the difference.
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- English
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- 37,522
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- 10/?
- Comments:
- 344
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- 1,581
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- 191
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- 25,462
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24 Jul 2025
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Spamton accidentally falls out of the inventory after the events of Chapter 3. Alone and without anybody to help him in Castle Town, where mainly those who still know him aren't friendly to him, Spamton finds a recently-recruited television who doesn't recognize him whatsoever and chooses to use this to his advantage.
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- English
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- 203,227
- Chapters:
- 21/21
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- 3,464
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Bookmarked by HowliteReturns
12 Jul 2025
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Love is an abstract concept that Bubby doesn't particularly enjoy trying to understand. Whether his feelings for Dr. Coomer are love or not, he defines it in concepts he understands. Bubby orbits Dr. Coomer.
He hates how accurate that conceptualization ends up being.
Bookmarked by HowliteReturns
29 May 2023
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Black Mesa Employee Entertainment Night(Or, Four Times Gordon and Barney Kiss and Ignore It, and One Time They Don't) by cavedinwriter
Fandoms: Half-Life
02 Jun 2021
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It was Gordon’s first week at work and he barely knew anyone. Despite this, he was at the Black Mesa Employee Entertainment Night(why it had such a verbose name was anyone’s guess). He was used to interacting minimally with his coworkers in the lab and being ignored by everyone else, but as much as tonight scared him, he was grateful for a change of pace.
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07 Apr 2023