TheseShipsShallSail



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  1. Summary

    It’s inconceivable that it should end like this. That their bodies - having shared every intimate secret possible - will have to settle for casual acquaintance. They’re on the cusp of a potential everything, but hurtling towards an actual nothing, and as the wall clock continues to tick it's brutal countdown, Elio wants to toss it, smash it: bury it like a tell-tale heart.

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    What changed his mind he has no idea, and who kisses who he can’t quite tell, but Elio’s heart soars as he raises up on tiptoes, and it’s all he can do to remember to breathe as they cling to each other in the light of the setting sun.

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  3. Summary

    A collection of Call Me By Your Name fics that also exist as Charmie variations in my Visions of Gideon series (just in case you're experiencing deja vu)

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    'Every tale is a tragedy when viewed in a certain light, but these are our memories, Oliver, laid out in black and white, and should I be destined to share Maman’s fate, I’m wont to ensure that someone, someday, will remember us.'

    Five years after his impromptu visit to Dartmouth University, Elio sends Oliver the journal he kept when he was the most hard-done-by teenager on earth. Will the yellowed pages shed a new light on the summer of ‘83? And in the face of such revelations, is it too late to make amends with the man who changed his life?

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  5. Summary

    Two idiots, both alike in circumspection, somewhere in Northern Italy in the mid-eighties where we lay our scene.

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  1. Public Bookmark 35

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    Ilya gets a cold. That's all.

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    23 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    John talks to it the way he used to talk Gale through his moods over cheap cigarettes and watered-down whiskey. It's a habit he never kicked, needing someone at the receiving end of his monologue. At least the dog doesn’t call his bluff, nor judge him for the deceptions he tells himself.

    Some evenings he sits on the porch with a beer and the dog puts its head in his lap and he thinks, alright, alright. This is enough. This can be enough.

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    John found a dog outside a bar. He almost named it Buck.

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    19 Apr 2026

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    No one would believe it now, but Ilya Rozanov was a shy kid, prone to tears. Small for his age. An easy target.

    After his mother’s death, he threw himself into hockey. He hit a growth spurt. He started lifting weights, became big and strong. Not as big and strong as his older brother, but big enough to make Alexei and the other bullies think twice. Strong enough to fight back.

    Or: Five times Ilya has to go home to Russia, and one time he chooses to go home to Shane.

    (This isn’t what Ilya had in mind when he figured they’d be spending most of their time at the cottage in bed.

    He throws his arm over his eyes and groans. “I am ruining our time together. I am ruining your time off.”

    “No you’re not,” Shane says. “Are you kidding me? I’ve basically been fantasizing about this.”

    Ilya lowers his arm. “About me puking all over your favorite place on earth?”

    “No, you asshole. About taking care of you.”

    Ilya stares at him.

    Shane says, defensively, “What?”

    “I fantasize about you fucking yourself on boring beige dildo,” Ilya says, voice cracking, “and you fantasize about me being sick at your cottage so you can take care of me?”)

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    18 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    The end of the war brings a promise of hope; home seems so close, happiness seems to be within arms reach. They're alive and there's a whole world out there for the taking, just waiting for them to claim it. If only it could be that easy, when one has lost and found oneself a world away.

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    04 Apr 2026

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    Through the haze of darkness and body heat and drunken partygoers, all Shane could see was Ilya. His eyes were fixed on Shane and Rose: the way she touched him, the way she kissed him, the way they moved together. And the look on Ilya’s face - the agony in his eyes - pierced Shane like a blade through his heart.

    It made him want to peel his skin off; made him feel ashamed for having a body that had been touched by someone other than Ilya.

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    14 Mar 2026