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Cold, abject horror washes over Trent as he stares at his phone screen, as the dots connect and the mortifying picture is made clear.
He has accidentally texted Ted Lasso. And Ted Lasso has texted him back.
Or, a story of how two people find each other and encounter the spark.
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- Part 1 of circles and triangles
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09 Nov 2025
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Lying in the bottom of a too shallow foxhole while bullet after German bullet whistled over his head had sadly become an all too common occurrence for Thomas.
Lying in the bottom of a shallow foxhole with William Mason pressed against up against him on one side, Matthew Crawley against the other, and Lord Grantham sprawled in the mud at their feet though? That was a little bit more unusual.
“Well then chaps,” the Lord turned Lieutenant-Colonel huffed with entirely too much forced cheer. “I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’m solidly of the opinion that we’re utterly ruddy ballocksed!”
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04 Oct 2025
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It wasn’t the work Thomas had imagined for himself, but then again, he’d long since stopped imagining a future for himself. The shop was tucked between a tailor and a laundress, modest and clean, with a single window filled with braces and straps and pieces of mannequins wearing assorted items. Hands with brass knuckles, knees of jointed steel, feet shaped from rosewood. It was a workshop for ghosts, Thomas thought, a place where broken bodies came to be reassembled.
The war had ended, but for Thomas, peace had arrived in random shards. Dismissed from Downton without references, he drifted through Leeds and York, carrying luggage, cleaning alleys, surviving. His bad hand ached and curled in on itself, his pride following suit. Having finally been offered a job in a prosthetics workshop, Thomas manages to find something he hadn't dared imagine and begins to build himself up again.
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03 Aug 2025
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Buck's getting a handle on this single-parenting thing, taking it one day at a time, relying on his friends for help — trying to find some semblance of normalcy after that life-changing phone call. As far as his love life goes...his first attempt at a serious relationship ended kind of terribly, and besides, he's a little bit pre-occupied with trying to be a good dad, so that's the last thing on his mind these days.
Then he meets Tommy.
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- Part 10 of bucktommy AUs
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16 Jun 2025
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In the series The Crimson Field, young VAD nurse Flora Marshall befriends a field hospital orderly with the same preferences as her beloved brother Barty. Being secretly eighteen instead of the needed twenty-three for overseas VAD service, Flora is good at keeping secrets that can get people in trouble. However, she’s also a bit naive due to both her age and upper-class background.
In a world where the gay orderly she attempts to befriend is none other than Thomas Barrow, her attempt to gently explain that she knows about his preferences is met with a rather convincing kiss instead of an angry verbal denial. The kiss somehow turns into more and—
Well, Flora realizes that the things she does with her favorite maid back home are much more fun despite the fact that she does find men quite handsome.
She also falls pregnant.
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In a world where Thomas Barrow becomes a field hospital orderly instead of a stretcher-bearer on the front lines, he goes a little too far trying to prove he’s like other men and ends up with a pregnant wife.
When his “ungentlemanly conduct” has him transferred to the front lines, he fights bravely so his future child will be proud.
And he returns home a hero.
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30 May 2025