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Eddie swipes the wand beneath his eye, fast and mostly smooth. He leans back from the mirror, assessing his reflection, and smudges lightly at the ink.
“One down,” he says, mostly to himself. Steve doesn’t say anything.
He’s thinking about girls at their bathroom mirrors and bedroom vanities. Dates or one night stands or whoever else, messing with their hair and poking at their lipstick and making faces. Fixing whatever Steve had made a mess of the night before.
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(Eddie finds some eyeliner in Steve's car. They both get weird about it.)Bookmarked by bearbed
13 Jan 2026
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“I think this is a bad idea,” Steve confesses.
“Whatever, I don’t care.” Eddie shrugs, sort of awkwardly, and cocks his head. “Do you?”
The thing twisting around inside Steve’s ribcage is closely associated with the habit of caring. He knows that much about himself, and he thinks Eddie, by now, should probably know that too.
But eventually he lifts his opposite hand just beneath Eddie’s mouth, and, instead of answering, he says—
“Spit.”
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An Insurmountable Thing by ghostsinmachine
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Jan 2026
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The terrible thing was that Shane wanted Rozanov about as much as he ever remembered wanting anything, maybe even more.
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11 Jan 2026
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As Mike makes breakfast, he catches fragments of the broadcast. Since the beginning of the year, over 500 AIDS-related deaths have occurred in San Francisco as of June, and projections estimate nearly a thousand deaths by the end of the year. The anchor sounds altogether unaffected. Will doesn’t move from his spot on the couch.
“Do you want coffee?” Mike asks gently.
“Sure,” Will says, voice low.1991. The Castro, San Francisco, California. Mike Wheeler moves into Will Byers's apartment, comes of age, and falls in love.
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07 Jan 2026
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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Dec 2025
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Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”
“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.
“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”
“Go fuck yourself.”
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Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.
And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?
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21 Dec 2025
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Zugzwang: a situation in chess where any legal move a player can make is ultimately disadvantageous, leading to inevitable loss.
__Silence clung to the room like a held breath. Shawn turned, staring again at the too-still apartment. The half-knocked-over furniture. The open air of something unfinished, something waiting. He mulled over the implications. He imagined to himself what he knew for certain to be true.
He could almost hear it.
Jessica’s voice, rising in panic.
A crash.
And then- nothing.
Shawn’s fingers curled slightly, and for once, the usual glint of amusement in his eyes dulled.
“No,” He muttered, and denied the only thing he knew for certain not to be true, “She wasn’t alone.”
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04 Aug 2025