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I pray for your kindness, Heart on a spit by a_cruel_cruel_girl
Fandoms: Challengers (Movie 2024)
28 Jan 2025
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“Does Art know?”
She stares at him in disbelief.
Does Art know?
As if she hadn't practically skipped home and whispered directly into Art's ear what kind of dirty thing Patrick had been doing to her that evening. As if Art hadn’t come so quick thinking about his own fiance being fucked by a different man, and not any man, it was only ever going to be Patrick.
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The thing about Art is Tashi knows he has it in him, to be fucking mean. He can be ruthless to get what he wants, when he really fucking wants it.
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“y’know you’re a bit touchy when you’re drunk.” patrick comments, grinning a little too wide as he nods at Art’s hands, now thumbing at the hems of his shorts.
he puffs out a breath of smoke. “yea, and you’re a bit touchy when you’re sober.”
or: what really happened at the mark reballato tennis academy
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when all those shadows almost killed your light by averythinline
Fandoms: Challengers (Movie 2024)
18 Jul 2024
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Now that he’s here, Art’s glad he decided to make the trip. He even convinced his parents to delay their own summer plans to let him stay on his own for a week.
Well, not quite on his own. He also, somehow, convinced Patrick to join him.
His stomach flutters a little at the thought–a mix of boyish excitement and crippling anxiety. It’s all very confusing.
He and Patrick have been talking a lot, remaining in near-constant contact these days. Honestly, they call and text way more frequently than they did after they left the academy and went their separate ways, both clinging to the naive hope that nothing would change between them.
It’s been good that they’ve gotten back together. In a way.
He just hates the circumstances that brought them back to each other.
Or: art and patrick spend a week at art’s parents’ lakehouse and maybe help each other heal.
Set three months after the events of the sun is going down (you’ll be alright)
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- Part 2 of come morning light
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The thing is, Art hadn't expected him to answer. After all, it's been months since they've last spoken. It's the longest they've ever gone without each other. And Patrick is saying his name and it's pathetic how good it feels to hear it again after so long of going without.
Art's at Stanford. He's in bed with a hand around his dick. He's drunk, alone and miserable.
And then he calls Patrick.
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“So it’s been… twelve years?” Patrick asks around the filter. He inhales deeply, and when he finally lifts it from his lips he blows the smoke in a steady stream past Art’s ear. He holds the cigarette out towards Art, an offering.
Art shakes his head. “Thirteen, actually,” not that he’s counting, “and, no, thanks, I quit,” he says. “Tashi wanted me to.”
It feels weird to say her name here. Feels a little bit like an invocation, Repeat Tashi Donaldson three times in the mirror while spinning in circles and she’ll appear right behind you.
“Right,” Patrick muses and takes another drag. “What have you been up to for thirteen years?”
Art’s eyes roll towards him with an unimpressed slant. “As if you don’t already know that,” he says. His lips press together and he tilts his head at Patrick, daring him to contradict.
Patrick shrugs one shoulder. “Sure I do,” he says. Knocks the same shoulder into Art’s. He’s close enough to do that. “But I want to hear it from you.”
Or, shared cigarettes, shared lamentations, and shared breath after the Phil's Tire Town Challenger Final.
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“This is low,” she says coldly, “even for you.”
“It’s not like I asked to be run over by a semi."
“Oh, didn’t you? This is a cry for help if I’ve ever heard one.”
“You still came,” Patrick points out.
Tashi’s lips curl into a sneer. “I came,” she says slowly, “to take my boyfriend’s name out of your emergency contact list.”
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Or, the highs and lows of Patrick Zweig's life, before and after New Rochelle.
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- Part 4 of betting on losing dogs
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“I don’t think you ever bought your own cigarettes in the six years I knew you.”
“You’ve known me eighteen years,” Art corrects, instinctively.
(anyway don't be a stranger!)
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“I am a stay-at-home husband, if you haven’t noticed,” Art says drily. “Taking care of my daughter while you fly around the world with my wife, Mister Calvin Klein.”
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Patrick thinks of the shape of his name when it’s coming from Art’s mouth, of all the different ways it can sound. He thinks of the way Tashi says his name, the same letters and syllables with a different voice. He thinks of the way they might say each other’s names. He thinks of the way he says both of their names.
Art, Tashi, Patrick, Tashi, Art, Patrick, Art, Tashi, Patrick, Patrick, Patrick . . .
(or: it’s 2006, and the night in the hotel room ends differently, and it turns out a lot of things are different after that too).
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Patrick might want nothing more than to lie like this forever, just looking at him. If he didn’t know how great he looks killing it on the court.
Oh, and the sex is pretty good, too.
Conversations in a hotel room on August 5, 2019.
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Art runs away. Patrick chases.
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Art runs away. Patrick chases.
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reborn (as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn) by stellarpoint (pettifogger)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jan 2024
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“Shut up,” Eddie snaps. He softens when he catches the smell of Steve, fresh and clean like he just took a shower. Maybe he did. “Should I just, y’know…?”
He makes a gesture with his fingers, emulating fangs. Steve chokes back a laugh.
“Christ, you’re a dork. Yeah, just bite me. Not too hard, though. The last thing I need is more scars.”
Eddie hesitates for a moment longer. Steve is tilting his head to the side, looking off to his right, and Eddie’s eyes linger on the two moles on the side of his neck. It looks like he’s already been bitten. He can hear the steady pulse of Steve’s heart in his chest; he can taste the salt on his skin just by breathing this close to him. His mouth waters.
“Get on with it,” Steve says, his voice uncharacteristically rough.
Or: An undead Eddie learns about the consequences of not eating for too long, and Steve learns a few things about himself in the process of helping him out.
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‘cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run by stellarpoint (pettifogger) for kkpwnall
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Apr 2023
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Realization #1: Steve is wearing a costume. He’s dressed as Springsteen on the cover of Born In The U.S.A. The album cover is staring at Eddie from the stack of records by the speakers, and he flicks his eyes between the cover and Steve, almost laughing at how obvious the resemblance is.
Immediately after that, revelations two and three slam into him like an eighteen-wheeler.
#2: Bruce Springsteen is kind of hot.
#3: Steve Harrington is really hot.
A fourth and much louder thought echoes through Eddie’s brain: oh, shit.
(Many months ago, I wrote a tumblr post about Steve Harrington being a Bruce Springsteen enjoyer. This fic is about that.)
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“I’m not! I—“ PJ bites on it for a second, “I was just intrusively thinking about kissing you over and over. Which isn’t that weird—“
“What?!”
“It’s not that weird!” PJ defends. “I mean, out of everything you just threw out there, this is probably the least bad for you.”
Hazel covers her mouth with both hands. “What the fuck.”
“I’m sorry you’re a good kisser?” PJ says. “Fuck, I dunno!”
Hazel stays like that for a second, then removes her hands to cross them over her chest, and PJ realizes Hazel wasn’t covering her mouth, she was trying to cover her face because it had gone beat red.
(Aka, after a few weeks have past and PJ still can’t get that one kiss out of her head, she decides to just keep kissing Hazel until the problem goes away.)
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Steve just wanted to do something nice for a friend, he doesn't mean to get Eddie's ring stuck on his finger, and it's definitely not his fault that everyone he knows is jumping to conclusions.
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Bookmarked by druidswild
18 Nov 2023
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“What do you need, Steve?” Eddie says again. It’s firm and soft at the same time.
It’s the first time he’s pushed, first time he’s insisted. First time he’s kept pulling when it’s clear Steve doesn’t want to talk.
“Can’t say,” Steve replies, too honest even though he hasn’t given anything away. “Eddie, seriously. I can’t.”
The rain pours, heavy and unforgiving, as Eddie considers this non-answer.
“Say it anyway?” Eddie pleads.
Steve shakes his head.
How can he ask Eddie to love him?
To hold him and tell him that he’s everything he’s ever wanted, even if he doesn’t fucking mean it?
That’s the worst part: Eddie doesn’t even have to mean it, not tonight.
Steve would take a convincing performance—needs one. Thinks that’s all he’s ever experienced anyway.
Steve wonders if he could ask without having to ask.
He takes a step closer, slowly reaches out.
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(OR some ridiculously intimate/vulnerable smut following a very angsty depiction of loneliness, penned from the depths of the soul of a chronically yearning lesbian)
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04 Sep 2023
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pretty girls never light their own cigarettes by ghosttotheparty
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2022
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“Hey.” Eddie tugs his hand. “No rules.“ He tugs again, prompting Steve to look up at him before he speaks again, softer. “This is just us, Stevie.”
Steve looks back at him, and Eddie can practically see the moment it sets in. That he’s safe here. That he’s free.
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- Part 1 of pretty girls
- Part 5 of adventures in queerness
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01 Jul 2023
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Eddie Munson vs. the Home Ec Final Project by bottlerocket32557038
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 May 2023
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“A lovely name, Eddie, I’m impressed.”
“It was my grandmother’s.” He replies, puts a hand over his heart to really sell it. Bullshit it was, his grandmother’s name was Virginia and she was a stone-cold bitch. But hey, O’Donnell is the only thing standing between him and sweet, sweet freedom, so Eddie’s not afraid to stretch the truth a bit.
or, Eddie's army-crawling his way toward a D in Ms. O'Donnell's Home Ec class, and his final project has arrived on his desk in the form of a sack of flour. A sack of flour that will be his daughter for the next seven days.
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Bookmarked by druidswild
01 Jul 2023