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velvet burns by flynnwb
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
14 Oct 2024
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“Whoa, hey, shh,” the woman touches her upper arm solicitously, and when Gideon shrugs her off she lifts both hands up, palms open. “I was only joking, silly. Pushing your buttons. Don’t you joke with your friends?”
Gideon settles slowly, lips still pressed in a thin line but less ready to bolt. “I’m trying to say I’d like us to be friends. On an ongoing basis. Not just one-life-saved, one-drink, one-night. Real friends.” That worms its way right into the center of something old and knotted in Gideon’s chest. She’s not stupid, this woman very obviously wants something extra too. But she can count on one hand the amount of times someone’s said that to her in her short life. “So, what do you say?”
Haltingly, Gideon nods.
Gideon thinks she’s getting herself a sugar mama. Harrow feels she’s getting sabotaged by a scrupleless competitor for the next official Lyctoral appointment in the Los Angeles First Central Church of the Great Resurrection. Cytherea knows she’s getting an excellent bargain for the price she’s paying, but that won’t stop her from wringing the most bang possible out of her buck.
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let them weep to speak of us by flynnwb for apredatorywasp
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
22 Sep 2024
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“Doesn’t this make you feel so alive? Our power: us, here, together?” Ianthe breathes. Harrow glances over at her. Ianthe is looking into the far distance, eyes bright with a hungry fervor, pinpricks of blood-red excitement high on her cheeks. This system’s star has a rosy hue, burning colder late in its life cycle, and the daylight offsets Ianthe’s usual sickly pallor. The Eighth Saint glows in her dirty white robes, looking warm and alive here on this planet in a way she never does in the icy illumination of their shared shuttle.
Harrow hates her.
(From the request: ‘dark universe Harrianthe Lyctors, cruelty and fucked up dynamics,’ a story in which Ianthe gets what she wants, but Ianthe doesn’t tend to want things that are all that good for her.)
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with a little help from my friends by flynnwb
Fandoms: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
23 Feb 2023
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The king turned and pressed the (still generously full) wineskin into Aris’s hands. He leaned up conspiratorially and Aris had no choice but to bend his ear, catching a whiff of alcohol on the king’s breath. “It seems poor Costis’s homing pigeon sense of duty can’t allow me a moment of peace, but I’ve been told in no uncertain terms to go to bed. You’ll keep your friend occupied and out of trouble for me, yes?”
“Uhh,” said Aris.
“Well said,” agreed the king, clapping Aris on the shoulder, and then he disappeared through the closet doors on the opposite side of the room, and did not come back out.
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at the foot of my bed (I can lay down next to you) by flynnwb
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
03 Nov 2021
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At first, she had slept. She’s not even sure how long it lasted; how can one mark time in the white blank bliss of oblivion? But then, the dreams had begun. Just snippets, initially. An alien ship, familiar faces; Ianthe’s disdainful washed-out loveliness, the dark, unassuming features of the Emperor Undying, the violently unwelcome Ortus- no, Gideon the First.
And yet, Gideon’s (her Griddle, not that desiccated ass) roguish, lopsided grin is excruciatingly absent. Lucid dreaming is clearly a pernicious fiction, because Harrow can’t manage even for one brief instant to relive the certainty of those strong arms eclipsing her like gravity in the weightlessness of dense saltwater. In rare moments of clarity she finds herself wishing that, if the dreams weren’t to be of Gideon, they might cease entirely and leave her to rest in tranquil nothingness.
They do not.
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- Part 4 of relief next to me
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I will call you pretty darlin', tell me what I am by flynnwb
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
07 Sep 2021
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Gideon had insisted on Harrow’s body remaining fully clothed, a pretense so absurd in light of the situation that Ianthe had struggled to suppress a laughing fit when Gideon first said it. But Ianthe had (mostly) been circumspect with her amusement, and later, when Harrow - no, correction, when Gideon was stumbling over her tongue, saying (in that voice with such a familiar timbre but completely unfamiliar heat) “please,” and “god,” and “I need-,” Ianthe had simply slipped the loose black trousers down around Harrow’s bony knees and let Gideon keep her tunic and robe. Ianthe is, above all things, self-possessed; she isn’t about to lose her hold on the chivalrous little cavalier now by tightening her grip too hastily. After all, without Gideon to toy with, how else is she supposed to pass the time on this lonely cruiser limping along through an even lonelier corner of space?
This work can be read as a stand alone, but is a sequel to: first in the series
And: second in the seriesSeries
- Part 3 of relief next to me
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relief next to me by flynnwb
Fandom The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
03 Nov 2021
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“What’s wrong with a little quid pro quo?" Ianthe asks, sweetly. "I’m giving you exactly what I know you need-” Harrow’s-no, Gideon's nostrils flare at that, “and in return you’re giving me something that I want very much.”
Post-HtN Ianthe has missed her chance with Harrow, hopefully only until some later date. In the mean time, there's always the naïve cavalier who wears Harrow's body awkwardly, like it's two sizes too small. Gideon may play-act the immovable object at first, but Ianthe is at her core an unstoppable force, and she learned long ago precisely how to identify fault lines in solid rock.
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The MLH decided to sponsor a week-long summer event for new players and up-and-coming prospects that they were calling the MLH All-Stars Summer Exhibition. And in the inaugural cohort, in addition to many talented prospects and players new to the league? Rookie of the Year Shane Hollander and runner up Ilya Rozanov.
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After their rookie season, Shane and Ilya have to share a room in Arizona. For a week.
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Bookmarked by flynnwb
17 Sep 2026
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Sensory descriptions, small details of intimacy and vulnerability, and authentic jock-dialogue are all on point - the author's writing style really shines.
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courage [it couldn't come at a worse time] by veilofimagination
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
23 Feb 2026
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"Why are you not scared?"
"I am scared," Ilya admits. "I just am tired. Of hiding me. Of hiding you. Of hiding how much I love you. I want to go to the rink— how do you say it? Authenti."
"Authentically," Shane supplies, automatically.
"Yes. Authentically. I want to go to the rink authentically, as me," Ilya confirms.
Ilya looks at Shane, pauses until Shane meets his eyes. "I want to say: I, Ilya Rozanov, love a man, and that man's name is Shane Hollander."
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Or, sometimes it takes a little more time, and some courage, to be with the one you love.
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14 Sep 2026
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A story about bravery. Sometimes big change is painful but it's also good change. Root bound plants need to be repotted into bigger, strange and lonely pots to grow taller and sprout new leaves. A version of this world where Ilya and Shane both have the privilege and the burden of making their own choices in their own time. This story is lovely and bittersweet and it feels very true.
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Operation Get Roz a SAP by dntat for Lanabean
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
18 Apr 2026
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Bood: And what would this person need to get Roz to settle down?
Roz: must be most beautiful person you have ever seen
Roz: very funny but does not know they are funny
Roz: and suck dick like their life depends on itOr: The Centaurs know that Roz is sad, and probably a little lonely. So they do their best to set him up with someone who matches his specific list of requirements. What they don't know is that their captain has already found that person.
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- Part 1 of Centaurs Shenanigans
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frequently, secretly fond of each other. by milominderbinder
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
15 May 2026
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Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?”
“Okay,” Hollander says, voice cracking.
He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies pressing down on you. Danger always feels like hockey; it’s the most dangerous thing Ilya knows, except for this. Everything dangerous in his life involves men’s bodies and just how close he can get to them. Closer than he probably should.
A year after mysteriously dropping out of the 2009 draft, Shane Hollander is signed by the Boston Raiders, right behind Ilya Rozanov. Having the two biggest stars in the league on the same line is great for Boston — but playing alongside their worst rival was never exactly in Shane or Ilya's plans. Especially not when staying away from each other starts to feel just as impossible as getting along.
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- Part 1 of frequently, secretly.
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Bookmarked by flynnwb
03 Sep 2026
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Brilliant perspective shifts, each character's narrative voice is so clearly THEM. 3 🏘
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Haunting Your City by mightyd0lphin
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
26 Feb 2026
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“What is there to talk about?”
“What’s there to talk about?!” Hollander scoffed, shaking his head. “You’re playing for my fucking team!”
“I know.”
“Why did you have to go and get traded?! You realise we’re going to have to see each other every day from now on, and play together, and-”
“Yes,” Ilya interrupted. He didn’t want to know how long Hollander’s list was. “I know.”
Hollander took a deep breath. “Okay, listen,” he said. “Just so we’re clear - we don’t know each other outside of playing against each other, right?”
“Right.”
“And we can’t- can’t hook up anymore.”
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OR: Ilya gets traded to Montreal in October 2014. He's lonely, and angry, and he misses Boston. He doesn't know if it helps that Hollander is there or not.
title from Buckle by Florence and the Machine
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Bookmarked by flynnwb
02 Sep 2026
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Excellent Ilya POV and I'm obsessed with this take on Alexei. Ilya learns about boundaries!