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“What else you got in your go-bag?” She found herself asking in awe. It hadn’t been a medically relevant question – not really. Not a learning opportunity, not something that would help the patient, just curiosity. Perhaps it started then; the itch to know what made Jack Abbot tick, to know what he deems essential. To know what he wants within arms reach at any given moment.
(Or: the evolution of Doctor Mohan's go-bag after Pittfest.)
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25 Sep 2025
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“Robby force you to take a break?” he asks when she’s close enough to not have to yell.
“Yeah.”
“Me too,” he huffs. “Like he’s my superior or something. Asshole.”
Samira laughs, bending down to put her coffee down, balancing her sandwich on the lid, and then leans her forearms on the railing, far enough away to still be able to look at the side of his face, but close enough that she feels a little more confident she’ll be able to do something if he… Well. “Should you be sitting over there?” she asks, staring at the slight slope of his nose, the shadow of his eyelashes across on the top of his freckled cheekbone.
“Probably not,” he answers in a casual tone. “At least I’m sitting.”
That doesn’t comfort her very much, but she figures there’s no point in fighting him on it, so she turns and sits down with her back against the warm metal, mirroring him. “You want half of my sandwich?” she offers, twisting her upper body to hold it out to him.
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21 Sep 2025
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this was what they meant, he thought, in the haftarot of consolation, behold I will set your stones with carbuncle, and I will lay your foundations with sapphires, the foundations of his soul had been cleared out and replaced with glittering stones and he felt— free, unencumbered, like nothing and nobody could hurt him, not ever again.
Pittsburgh, 1986-1990.
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- Part 1 of tzedek, tzedek, tirdof
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04 Sep 2025
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Samira's had her whole life mapped out since she was thirteen. You know what they say about best-laid plans.
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28 Aug 2025
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Kaaras Adaar is thrilled that he and the Iron Bull are moving forward with their relationship with Dorian, but Adaar knows that the path forward isn't always a smooth one.
Or, a modern Thedas fic where Dorian is still in the middle of a Qunari sandwich and a continuation of Filling Quiet Spaces.
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- Part 2 of Quiet Spaces
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06 Jun 2025
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Cara Alvarez of the El Paso Fire Department knows exactly two things about her new coworker Eddie Diaz. One: Diaz has a husband named 'Buck', who he left back in LA. Two: Diaz is Extremely Annoying about how much he misses his husband, the aforementioned 'Buck'.
Or; Eddie moves to El Paso, and his new coworkers come to certain assumptions. Eddie... does not correct these assumptions.
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09 Jan 2025
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eddie's not entirely sure he believes in getting help, at least not for himself. there's only so much healing to be had for a body torn apart by bullets, for a mind that's only half there, for a man who's been leaving pieces of himself behind all his life with nothing to take their place.
except, as it turns out, falling apart happens in increments, and healing does, too: it happens when you gnaw a hole in your lip trying to keep quiet only to have the words escape; when you realize that the ghost you've been seeing out of the corner of your eye is yourself; when your best friend smiles, and you allow it to take your breath away.
it happens through the smallest of things: bird feeders, and cacti, and pasta shapes.
meanwhile, the world goes on.
(or: the entity often affectionately referred to as the unrepression fic.)
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- Part 1 of tell me about despair
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04 Dec 2024
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Five years after the Inquisition’s disbandment, a disillusioned Dorian takes a leave of absence from the Magisterium and journeys south to visit Cullen, where the fully recovered once-commander runs a rehab program for templars out of his manor house in the Bannorn. Dorian, wounded grievously in both body and spirit by The Iron Bull's final betrayal, is still struggling with his losses and the man they've made him. Seeing his old friend awakens memories, both good and bad, which he'd thought long buried. As the two reconnect, spending time together on the farm with Cullen’s many dogs, they begin to realize they may have more to offer one another than simply reminiscing about a shared past.
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12 Sep 2024
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Goddamn, this might just be the most beautiful fuckin thing I've ever read in my life. What the fuck, dude.
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break me, shake me, devastate me (come here, baby) by strawberryliqor
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
03 Jul 2023
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The unexpected sound of a door opening behind him, though quiet, startles him out of it. He jumps, eyes flying open, and turns around to see who’s entered. It’s Ted. Of course it’s Ted. It’ll always be Ted, Trent thinks as they make eye contact.
Ted’s got his green backpack on, holding Keeley’s pink gift bag in one hand. The sight of him like that — packed and ready to depart — makes the hollow feeling claw at Trent’s ribcage. Sharp nails and a fearsome strength. For a moment, they simply look at one another across the press room.
“Hey, Sport,” Ted says eventually. And his tone is the softest it's been since he broke the Kansas news a week prior.
Trent grips the side of his manuscript, tight. “Hello, Ted,” he replies.
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23 Mar 2024
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“Come help me find an apothecary nearby,” Ed calls to Lamp, who’s still laying in front of the door. Ed pulls up the Conjure browser on his phone and searches for apothecaries in his area. There are a dozen or so results that pop up by the time Lamp has reluctantly left his post by the front door and flopped down next to Ed on the couch, pushing his head under Ed’s arm so he can look at the search results.
One of them jumps out immediately: “Stede’s Stupendous Shop of Spellcasting Sundries,” Ed reads aloud. What the fuck is that name? It’s fascinating and hilarious. Ed needs to go there immediately. He looks up reviews for the shop, and they’re either 5 stars or 1 star, nothing in between. He checks one of the 1-star reviews — left by someone supposedly named Calico Jack, which is a weird name — and it starts with, “There’s this angry chicken, right,” and Ed stops reading there because that sounds like the coolest fucking thing he’s ever heard, and he wants to experience it for himself.
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Stede's a lonely apothecary owner looking for love. Ed's a jaded potions master looking for his place in the world. This is how they find what they're looking for in each other.- Language:
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26 Nov 2023
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Ed's tattoos have stories to tell.
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“Now, close your eyes. Try not to think about anything.”
Stede wonders what kind of game this is, exactly. Ed’s skin is warm as ever under his hand and it’s silly, but he fancies he can feel the small crosses and pin-prick stars as warmer still, heating up against his palm.
The pulse in Ed’s thumb beats in time with the pulse in Stede’s wrist.
Ed starts to hum. It’s a low rumble, gently swooping between deep tones; the design under Stede’s hand gets hotter and hotter. It feels red and sharp. Stede feels the vibration of Ed’s humming inside him as though it’s coming from his own chest.
Stede’s eyes are closed but he sees—feels—knows the room around him is receding. The walls are rushing away. The gentle rocking isn’t the Revenge riding the ocean swell, but their bed floating amongst waves. He can smell a sharp sting of salt and feel a biting wind on his cheeks.
Ed speaks, but the humming doesn’t stop. “Can you see it?”
He can.
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04 Nov 2023
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10/10 Literally every emotion, beautiful prose, skilled as HELL with the execution
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Ed picks Stede up at a bar for what ought to be a one-night stand, but it turns out they're attending the same academic conference the next day.
“Yes, please, a – Loose Cannon, did you say? Really, how charmingly nautical.” There. Words. Sub-optimal words, but words nonetheless. He grins, aiming it toward the stranger while taking him in in smaller doses. Leather boots, faded, artfully ripped black jeans, a purple cropped shirt under a silky, billowy black – kimono? Overshirt? Facial scruff. Lots of hair, salt and pepper, pepper only just winning out, for now. Tattooed knuckles, forearms, collarbone. Earring, silver stacking rings on most fingers, a nose stud that somehow softens the whole, well, lewk and – okay, he’s staring. He stares some more as the man reaches to accept his own drink, revealing more tattoos up the arm and an inch more of skin below the crop top. The stranger makes some obscure gesture to the bartender, then meets Stede’s eyes, which he worries might actually be protruding from his skull, like a cartoon. AwOOga.
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- Part 1 of Pirates of the Care-i-Bae'n
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07 Sep 2023
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Ed's an artist, Stede's a bookseller. They're both a bit surprised to have met the love of their life at this late stage in the game.
This is them figuring out what to do about it.
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- Part 2 of Temptation 'Verse
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06 Sep 2023
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A part of me I didn't even know existed was healed by this story.
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01 Sep 2023
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30 Aug 2023
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“The mosaics are fucked. The whole building is fucked. You listening to me? You have to leave. Now.”
The Gentleman blinks at him, and at the moment Ed’s not sure who’s near them, emergency responder wise, his last check had the building reading as clear, but he can never really be sure who’s within hearing distance at any given point during something like this. He just hopes the next words out of his mouth are drowned out by the cacophony of noise around them.
“Stede, please.”
or: probably not the best idea to fall for the one other person regularly putting themselves in dangerous situations for the greater good, but Ed will be the first to argue the virtues of high risk: high reward.
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19 Aug 2023
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So the thing is that despite all of that—or maybe because of it—he’s head over heels, arse over fucking teakettle, in love with Stede, and he all but has been since they met ten months ago.
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Stede gets dumped. Of course Ed is there for him. It’s what friends do. Right? Even when they’re…well, let’s just say pine isn’t just a tree.
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02 Aug 2023
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Something We Were Withholding Made Us Weak by triedunture for subiteveneinorem
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
17 Jul 2019
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"Yes, exactly. Retire." Aziraphale reaches for the last remaining tartlet brimming with summer berries. "Somewhere along the south coast, perhaps."
Or: Crowley and Aziraphale learn to move in tandem.
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02 Aug 2023
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Ed’s in love with a patient—and if that isn’t the worst kind of luck, he doesn’t know what could be worse.
The man in room 302 has a head of golden curls, sparkling hazel eyes, a dimpled smile—one so bright that Ed dropped his glasses the first time he examined him up close—and a memory more unreadable than a wiped computer.
A prompt-based fic using the words Medicine, Amnesia, Poetry, Ed, Transit
Written for MotiMarch 3/21 Bingo and AU-pril Day 8 prompt for Medicine.
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- Part 6 of OFMD AU prompts
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24 Jul 2023
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Ed's minding his business when the new neighbor's kid comes around holding a human puppet. It's creepy as hell, but as soon as the kid's father rounds the corner, Ed doesn't mind.
ETA: Podfic available here from Kninjaknitter my darling dearest
“Hello,” says the strangest voice Ed’s ever heard, jolting him out of his reverie, sending his heart speeding into chaos.He opens his eyes and he’s staring straight at a stuffed animal in the shape of a human person. It is bald with a tiny hat and too-big eyes and it wears a blue shirt and a name tag that says Jeffy in the sort of scrawl normally reserved for words written in blood.
A puppet, he realizes several seconds beyond when it would have been appropriate to respond.
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20 Jul 2023